Re: Retinal rivalry in 3Discover images

[P3D Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 01:45:58 -0500 (EST)
>From: P3D  Paul Talbot
>...........
>Re: Gabriel notes problems fusing water around Statue of Liberty in the
>3Discover Great America I cassette, image #2, ....... 
>..................The distance between those two
>people is different in the right and left images, so at least one of
>them was moving.  Also, the waves lapping up against the island are
>different. ..............
>but I think it is differences in the images that are causing the effect
>he describes.............
>The comments above are intended as documentary observations, not
>criticism.  I think, however, the differences in the aerial shot of the
>Pentagon are just annoying enough that, in a very tough call, I probably
>would have voted on the side of shooting the scene over, or leaving it
>off the cassette.

It sounds like Wrebbit needs to do some *fixing* of their images before
putting them into production. Water notoriously won't sit still for
non-simultaneous shots. It is possible and not very difficult to repair
discrepancies such as the ones noted by Gabriel and Paul. The few hours work
involved would make a big difference in the quality of their product. It's a
rather small investment considering their basic investment in time and money
to get the images in the first place. 

For the industry of print images like books, such repairs, at least for 2D
work would be considered as absolutely necessary, not an option for
skipping. It's like the music industry putting out a substandard recording
full of background noise. For 3D work such things stand out even stronger.
The only reason I can think of for them not being repaired might be that
they didn't realize it could be repaired. Repair would be much less
expensive than retaking the shots. Like Paul's comments, this is intended to
be constructive criticsm.

Larry Berlin

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