Re: Screen too large

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 11:25:26 -0500
>From: P3D Sandman  
>
>P3D Larry Berlin says:
>>You're on the right track, but I'd need to know what screen resolution you
>>are using on that big monitor. I would hope you're higher than 640 x 480!
>
>1024X768 (x32) Imagine 128 card.
>
>lets see 640X480 on a 14" (4X3 yields 11.2"x8.4") is 57 DPI
>and 1024x768 on my 21" is 61 DPI.  Should be fine right?
>
>But if the images are produced for a 17" using 1024x768 it assumes 75 DPI
>and I cannot compete with that without going to 1280x1024 (and I would
>lose color depth).
>
>I guess I will just have to keep reducing the images.
>
>Sandman


Well, you have a good card! 16 bit color isn't wildly different from 32 bit,
but I like the full thing most of the time too. I would at least change it
to the largest resolution at 16 bit for awhile and try it. The other
solution is to find a board that supports 32 bit color for the largest
resolution.

I've noticed many of the parallel images are on a scale larger than I can
comfortably view as well. I figure many of them are intended to accomplish
two things, not lose too much detail from reduction of size, and view with
some kind of viewer. I keep a handy adjustable viewer next to my computer
and if they are out of range I just grab the viewer. One of these days I'll
put up a page about my hand-made fully adjustable viewer...

As more of us switch to or include the option of LCD formatted images, this
will be much less of a problem. It's still a problem for those without LCD
glasses so maybe a stronger effort to format according to levels of
accessability is in order. Preferably providing crossed pairs for the better
resolution and much reduced pairs for parallel viewing. I find it's usually
necessary to manually touch up images that get reduced that much. Reduction
is an automatic process that doesn't pay as close attention to maintaining
exactness between the two images in a pair as one would wish. Someday
someone will write a routine that will maintain rigorous control of stereo
information throughout any reduction process involving stereo pairs.

Maybe you could email me privately  with your experience based on parallel
views on my site? They are not all done to the same scale so there will be
some you should be able to access and others that may be difficult. I have a
bunch of stuff being readied for the site and most will be available in
several formats.

Larry Berlin

Email: lberlin@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.sonic.net/~lberlin/
http://3dzine.simplenet.com/


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