Re: Computer 3d? Not yet for me...

[P3D Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Without slow (but worth waiting for!) regular mail exchanges I would
> have not had the chance to view Erlys' wonderful images with my red
> button viewer.  You can try and put her "Dreamers" in your site.  Then

To "reverse roles".... if a million people look at someone's 3D WWW page's
3D pictures (certainly millions *could* over a year's time)... how long
would it have taken for the web-page-owner to have instead snail-mailed
realist slides to those million people?  And how much postage would
it have costed (particularly when it's world-wide)?  How many people
have red-button viewers vs. the number that have computers with high
speed internet connections (or how many orders of magnitude is the latter
bigger than the former)?

Further, how would one have *known* who to snail-mail it to if it
weren't for a computer-connection to begin with?

Yes, it's a "problem" that not everybody has a computer or even 
one of those combo yuppie_coffee/computer_web "Cafe" places
nearby.  But not only for 3D'ers.  There's a general "haves" vs.
"have-nots" sort of thing building and it's only going to get
worse as computer network access becomes a necessity of ordinary
life.

Computer 3D, as such, isn't a replacement for red-button viewers
(yet), it's an alternative media with different advantages and
disadvantages.  Another option in one's toolbox for doing things.

Mike K.


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