Re: Electronic Expo?

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:40:09 -0500 (EST)
>From: P3D Dr. George A. Themelis writes:
>
>Larry Berlin presents interesting ideas regarding the management and
>circulation of expoX (X > 2).
>
>>Perhaps there is a better way to distribute such a collection?
><<<Consider making multiple copies of each item
>
>Not desirable.  My original Realist slides have a quality that is not
>matched well in duplication. 

**********  I figured you  would be the first to mention this factor!!! The
fact remains that to get the expo to many more people in less time there
have to be multiple copies, at least until the matter transport beamer is
perfected. ; -)

> 
><<<The originals are retained by someone and most of it is scanned,
>digitized or otherwise described and posted to a web site. 
>
>[most of the rest of the ideas is a list of advantages of the
>web/electronic distribution-route]

*******   Not true. It's an explanation of how electronic coordination and
communication supports and promotes the REAL THING in it's physical sense. A
difference that is perhaps very important. As long as you continue to see
digital as something somehow opposed to cameras or analog devices, the
usefulness of the natural cooperation between these technologies is
difficult to understand. There is no real fight between technological
formats other than friendly and enthusiastic comparisons of some notable
differences.

>
>Larry, I don't doubt that this has many advantages as you outlined...
>However, it is something different and not as intended to be used and
>designed for.  The idea of expo is that people are expo-sed to different
>formats and methods of viewing.  In a webpage you only have one format and
>very specific ways of viewing.

********  My suggestions were aimed at facilitating the distribution of real
physical slides, photos, viewers, etc. to a larger number of P3D members
within a shorter time span. The problem is one of transportation and access.
Multiple copies on multiple circuits is the only answer to getting any
collection to this number of persons in a reasonable time frame, and
electronic communication is the best way to facilitate the complexities of
making it work.

>
>I entered Realist format slides intended to be viewed in the supplied
>Realist red button viewer (or in projection).  I could possibly participate
>in an electronic expo but this is a different idea altogether.  It defeats
>the original purpose of expo-sure to different types of 3d imaging.

*****  I guess you'd rather have folks give you comments that were directed
to someone elses pictures? Or not get a chance to comment at all? Or maybe
you'd rather your 3D images were represented with flat pictures? So what if
your images are intended for viewing in the Themelized enhanced Red Button,
that IS how they would be viewed in the expo! The identification and note
writing by electronic means doesn't have a red button available of the same
type as you mention, and so what? At least the means of communicating
intelligently about the images doesn't leave when the package is mailed out,
or when the guest leaves the hosts home!!!!! That's got to be a BIGGG Plus!

>
>You have a good idea.  But it is not expo.
>
>George Themelis
>

I challenge you to try it and then attempt to revert back to the system that
was used for expo2!!!!!

If it's got the same caliber of images and enthusiasm of the current expo it
would indeed still be the expo.

Larry Berlin

Email: lberlin@xxxxxxxxx
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