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[P3D Bob Aldridge <bob.aldridge@xxxxxx>]

->>> Dan Shelley writes:
->>>
->>>Well folks, we are up to 22 people who have expresed a desire to be
->the >>financial backers that will make this project become a reality.
->Just a >>few more for the bare minimum... Any more takers?
-> 
->>I have several objections to the proposed format for this 3D CD.
->I've seen >some discussion of these items but no resolution of them
->has been offered >and a headlong rush to count noses despite the
->potential problems. 
->>When I spend time visiting other 3D sites I encounter a number of
->situations >that are less than ideal. The result is that if the CD is
->just an exact copy >of existing material it's not very convenient at
->all. 

And John R replied:

->On first reading, I disagreed with that view, but on further
->reflection I think it's a very good point. The inconveniences of
->accessing the images through all those different layouts detracts
->considerably from viewing the images. If this disc is just a mirror
->site for (for example) 20 web sites, and the reader has to go down
->into the heirarchical structure of each one, and each one is
->different, that takes away most of the benefit of having all the
->images in one place. For the stated predicted price, I'd much rather
->have 25-100 nice images, well organized in multiple formats, than
->100-400 "straight run" in a chaotic jumble. 

But surely you're missing the point? 

The CD is designed to preserve a "snapshot" of the wisdom on the
Internet at a particular time. Only a small part of that wisdom will be
in the form of images.

I see the biggest values in this CD as twofold:

1. I can get a preview of what people are doing, discover what has been 
  achieved e.g. with joining mono cameras. If someone has successfully  
 joined two cameras in the past, then I can probably do it in the   
future.

   I will also, hopefully, have an e-mail route to contact the author   
directly. (I say "hopefully" because these addresses will inevitably   
go out of date in time.)

2. People who don't have web browsing capabilities would be able to view
   the CD and get sight of all the information. In the UK Internet   
connections are much less common than in the USA. As an example, only   
three of the eleven members of the Stereoscopic Society Committee   
have internet connections.

If you want a compilation of images, then that is a totally different
animal. If you want that, then get the CD, contact the site owners
directly and request the images that you like in a form that you like.
When you've amassed a suitable collection of your favourite images, just
archive them onto your own CD. By the time you've collected them CD
writers will be standard issue in all new PCs...

Bob Aldridge
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