Goodbye to the static limitations of stereo window !

[P3D Jan Gjessing <gjessing@xxxxx>]

A new creative redesign of the stereo window.
In the last issue of "Das 3D Magazin" No 1/97) the 3-D photographic
artist Eva Adams, Albuqerque,USA, describes a totally new approach
towards the rules and limitations regarding the shape and size of stereo
window. By redesigning the stereo window with opposite symmetric but not
so vertical borders, replacing them as bending shapes partly strait or
angular connected borderlines.
In this way, she makes not only a new stereo window, but allows the
stereo window itself to occupy a variable 3 dimensional space. This
again offers  much more creative opportunities towards the use and
placement of the image itself. We have been restricted to learn that
only clear independent object can be allowed to protrude through the
stereo window to avoid being cut by the stereo window itself. Now it is
possible to have a lot more of the image gently  out of the stereo
window without perceptual conflicting fusion and removing the feeling of
always looking through a fixed vertical window. By doing this, the image
can protrude outwards even if the ground itself continues and stick out
towards the viewer.  The angular or curved vertical border will save the
concept from any window violation. The image gives added effect of being
closer as well as making a more vivid and interesting  picture
composition. It utilise more depth in front of the stereo window since
the stereo window itself is dynamic variable placed in space.
This new innovative tooling of the stereo window should work just as
well for print and slides and open up a new field for creative stereo
work to be explored. For projection we can=92t depends on using the slide
aperture as the stereo window. Custom made lithfilm. masks have to be
introduced, but this gives no mounting or alignment problems if one use
a professional slide mount like the Wess system or similar.=20
Will we encounter work in this field presented at the ISU congress in
ROLDUC in May?
Better still, its self explainable if some images could be put up at any
appropriate web-site!

Lets not forget  Eva Adams. She have truly moved the border of the
stereo window, as well as the mental barrier, which for most of us would
mean staying with a static window concept forever=85..=20

Jan Gjessing


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