Re: SAY YES TO "PSEUDO"!

[P3D Dave Worrell <dworrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>From: P3D  Dr. George A. Themelis writes:
>>OK, ... let the record show that I have experimented with "pseudo
>>stereos".........One must be careful of when
>>and how to use them, especially with ordinary stereophotographed scenes.

>Larry Berlin>*****  Perhaps some of them end up as *interesting in 
>themselves*, but my reference to them was in how they exist in all 
>stereo images, interesting or not.
<...more good stuff...>

I have always considered it a "mistake" when I mount pseudo, but this
sounds interesting! It reminds me of discussion of the cubist movement in
art. For example, Picasso's later portraits, which distort the human form
in uncomfortable ways, present multiple perspectives in one image. I seem
to remember some that were an "inside-out" perspective.

Most of us have seen face sculptures that appear normal when viewed
"straight on" but are actually concave - but you can't tell till you look
from an angle. The brain doesn't expect a concave face ... depth clues
alone are not enough to convince it. I've had similar problems
interpreting views of lunar craters.

I think I'll have to try a few pseudos - perhaps this thread will create a
new movement in photographic art: the "Pseudoscopic" or "Antiscopic" era -
someday regular stereo will be Post-Pseudo! ;^)  (And we were here at the
beginning!)

Dave Worrell (dworrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
PFPFT - Popular Front for the Preservation of Fifties Technology
Publications Technician, Alaska Section of Epidemiology



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