CDDD

[P3D Adam L. Beckerman <adam@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry B. wrote:
>****   I think the proposed CD could serve both purposes. It can be an image
library as well as a snapshot of the web pages represented. Either way or
both ways the project will require a bit of organizing and work.<

John R. added:
>I'm starting to think the best approach is two CDs - a completely unchanged
mirror of assorted sites, which Dan is interested in, and a disc of easily
viewable 3D images, which anybody could work on. Combining these functions
on one disc would be the worst of both worlds - a lot of work to design, 
yet still difficult to navigate.<

I have to agree and disagree with Larry, and disagree with John.  Here's my 
suggestion that accommodates MOST everyone and doesn't require a lot 
of work on Dan's part:

Go ahead with vanity CD as planned with snapshot of current 3d web content.  
Once the directory structure is compiled, if you're using win95, just do a file 
find for *.* (including sub-directories) and sort by file type.  You can scroll 
through and be able to identify and copy out all files of one graphics type to a 
sub-directory under an images directory on the root that is named for the 
said file type.  The 'web' files would be under an html directory with 
sub-directories named for the submitter for example.

This way, people have the choice of viewing the web content with images, just 
the images or both.  Nobody has to mess with inconsistent file types in the 
html content, and they have the option to view the files how they want with their 
own viewing software (which would allow them to resize or switch left and right 
for their preference).  Although that means anaglyphs could be in with 
cross-eyed images (if both saved as .jpg for example), they can preview with 
thumbnails if they have a decent viewing program (some are even shareware 
and do this) to prevent from viewing anaglyphs if they don't want to see those 
and vice versa.  They could also stay away from .jps if they want to (i'm not 
trashing jps here), they just have more flexibility in how they can view the 
images (even though cross-eye and parallel images would be harder to tell 
apart).  It would be too much for Dan to preview all of the images and subdivide 
them into cross-eye and parallel and anaglyph, etc.

I think this suggestion offers a number of options for the purchasers of the CD, 
doesn't require too much work for Dan (only extra space on the CD for the 
duplicates of the images which may or may not be available), and would allow 
people to view the images how they want (for the most part).  If the extra space 
isn't available, it's not too much trouble to do this same thing and write it out 
to a separate CD as John suggested.  You'd just have to ask people what their 
preference is.  Do they want an image gallery, or image gallery with wealth of 
information about stereo photography in general to go with the images?  My 
guess is that most people will opt for the latter anyway, and in their spare time, 
view each site in order at a time, or do a search for something specific (Dan, 
will people be able to do this?  Will there be a brief description of the content 
of each page next to its link on the main page so that the simple word find 
feature of the web browser will allow people to selectively view that which 
interests them?  If not, will searching be enabled, and if so, how?).

Any thoughts?

Adam


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