Re: Goodbye to the static limitations of stereo window!

[P3D Dr. George A. Themelis <fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am I the only one who has a problem understanding this posting?

>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 redsigning the stereo window with opposite symmetric but not
>so vertical borders, replacing them as bending shapes partly strait or
>angular connected borderlines.

Can you perhaps give us an ascii drawing of this "new" concept???

>In this way, she makes not only a new stereo window, but allows the
>stereo window itself to occupy a variable 3 dimensional space. 

Why is that so?

>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 

Why is that so?

>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.

Sorry, I don't get it, especially the last sentence.

>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. 

Why is that so?

>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

Why is that so?

>Will we encounter work in this field presented at the ISU congress in
>ROLDUC in May?

I don't know.

>Better still, its self explainable if some images could be put up at any
>appropriate web-site!

Yes, sure.

>Lets not forget  Eva Adams. 

Easy to remember.  Adam and Eve.

>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

I don't understand your static qualification (also in the subject of your
posting).  Where I come from (Greece) static is something that does not
move.  Is Ms. Adams' window moving in any way?  I don't think so.  It is
still static.  But it is redesigned.  It is redesigned to have fancy
shapes.  People have used different masks to achieve different effects.  It
has been done but I don't know of any convenient way to do it.  If Ms.
Adams has a convenient way to redesign borders to create different windows,
I'd love to hear about it.  For the time being for most situations, the
fixed orthogonal stereo window is the most natural choice for me and I like
it.  I am not restricted by it and I use it as a compositional tool.  It
would be nice to have different borders for special images, not for every
darn image.

Regards,

George Themelis


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