P3D Re: boris starosta's site

[jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gabriel Jacob)]

Mike K. writes,
>Recall my suggestion about the "exercise" of walking-around-a-room in 
>front of a projected image and seeing how "distortion" varies
>significantly (more in some images than others) as one moves
>around the room.  It really "works".  I've done it (club did too
>a few weeks later).

I believe you! Actually in some anaglyph books, images are drawn
so that the perspective is only correct when viewed at an angle. This
would be used for instance, where the book is placed on a table, and
the person won't be standing over it but rather sitting and viewing it
at an angle. The image in this case is skewed (on purpose) so that
when viewed sitting down, non-perpedicular stretch is introduced and
the final image looks correct. It is quite an amazing sight since
it is not only an image sticking out of a traditional stereo window
but sort of like looking at a solid model in front of you with no
stereo window. I wonder and imagine this must have been done with
real images before. Now that would be interesting. For example, an
animated 3-D play could be played in front of you, with a monitor
layed down flat playing a stereo pair or anaglyph movie. This reminds
of the scene in Star Wars with the holographic movie.

>My personal experience is very different from this.  Looking at a 2D 
>photo of a distant view, or looking out of an airplane window at all
>the "small" houses, my brain interprets the situation as "big things
>far away".  When I look at a hyper image view of the same, my
>brain interprets "small versions of usually big things at some 
>distance".  VERY VERY different to my brain's way of processing 
>things.  
>
>
>Other brains may vary.... :-)

That's interesting, personally I usually see it like Larry.

Gabriel


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