P3D Berlin vs Magic Eye

[ron labbe <ron@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>****  I'm not sure what you mean with your subject line, *still waiting*.
>

You'd not answered my original question about WHO was doing the AMAZING
stereograms better than Magic Eye ever dreamed of. In fact, you still haven't!

>So pick any of the artists publishing stereograms early on, and they were
>likely more advanced than Magic Eye in use of the medium at that point in
>time, relative to published works. For one small list see the book, Another
>Dimension from 21st Century Publishing. 

I know the book- it's a mixed bag- certainly nothing that blows away Magic
EYE! You gotta be kidding!

>Several Japanese books that came out
>later than Another Dimension went even farther. 

OK- the Japanese STEREOGRAM books DID blow Magic Eye away: creativity,
variety and text were fantastic, great, wonderful. However, they did not
sell NEARLY as well here as Magic Eye, nor did Magic Eye attempt to squash
their work. So? In fact, Digi-Rule's book "Henry's Gift" is probably
exactly the type of imaginative, new, exquisite stereogram book that you
envision: but it came at the end of the cycle and didn't sell well- even
with Magic Eye's name on it! If this doesn't blow away your theory (written
by you as fact) that it was Magic Eye's bad marketing and patent abuse that
killed the stereogram's popularity, I give up! (By the way, Blue Mountain
Arts did some nice work, as well... and so did Bob Mannle, but he came in
way late, unfortunately!)

>****  Yes, Digirule was one of the best, and he didn't learn it from Magic
>Eye...

Who said he did? Their technique blew Magic Eye away, they knew it. Which
is why they attempted a hook-up...


>The worst MEye stereogram product that I ever purchased, was the CD-ROM put
>out under their label by MindScape. It was expensive ($45) but a
>cheap-ripoff value wise. (I know Magic Eye didn't actually create this
product, they licensed some german guys to make it)


It WAS terrible! Magic Eye had no shame and was really trying to cash in on
the phenomenon while it was still hot... Magic Eye was doing extremely well
in Germany as well. The video was no better- they were approached by a
video company who had no idea what they were doing and Magic Eye had barely
a hand in it... . You missed out on the awful Magic Eye neckties? 


>NONE of Magic
>Eye's books came close to most of the competition until AFTER the patent had
>been awarded and competition was dropping out. Then the Magic Eye books
>started using some of the more advanced techniques others had used first. 
>

Again, generalities! WHICH competition? WHAT advanced techniques?

I'll tell you any change in technique had nothing to do with the patent
which I cautioned against abusing. 


>when the business advisers got in there, they for sure had even less of an
>idea why people liked the images.

No one knows, not you or anyone. The quality often doesn't matter as to
popularity or sales. Look at music, films, books or any artform: much
garbage often sells millions, while great work is often appereciated by
only a few. 

>Consider that paintings are nothing more than colored matter smeared on some
>surface, yet paintings have weathered the passage of time and are still very
>much in use. Their value is what the artists put into them, not just in the
>pigments used to do the job. 

You're talking about a medium now, rather than content. Paintings are very
accessible, while- as we know- stereo imaging is not. Far fewer people have
trouble viewing paintings than stereograms, eh? As for content- we've just
covered that...

P.S. Thanks, Martin Simon, for your insightful contribution!

This will be my last contribution to this interesting and informative
thread- (do I hear Amen?)





ron

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