P3D Sarasota's 3-D Showcase and formats

["Harold R. Baize" <baize@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Boris is right, we have all been rude for not commenting 
on his improvement and expanded web pages. I also have 
not found time to thank Dr. T for sending me a stereoscopic 
test slide (Thank you George :-)). I think acknowledging 
improved web sites is not seen as important to members of 
the list, I received few comments when I announced the
greatly expanded Burning Man pages back in early October.

Of your new images I particularly like the computer graphic 
and photo composite. At first I was going to complain that 
the correct term is fairy rather than pixie, but a check of 
the dictionary shows that pixie is a more general term which 
includes small elf as well as fairy creatures. So I guess 
pixie is acceptable, although a pixie with wings is a fairy.

On the anaglyph issue I suspect that virtually all the P3D 
list members prefer viewing methods other than anaglyph. When 
I urged you to include anaglyph it was because I believe it 
addresses the novice audience. I think that we should make 
our 3-D web sites accessible to as broad an audience as 
possible. Therefore I'm not surprised that the anaglyph pages 
have not been visited much. I don't know how you have publicized 
or linked your site. If you were to have your site linked 
to a more general audience source you might receive a higher 
percentage anaglyph hits. 

Here are the hit rates for my Burning Man 3-D pages for 
October through today:

  Anaglyph    486
  Dual image  653
  Interlaced  283

Note that my ISP has an unreliable hit counter and hundreds of 
hits were lost, so these numbers are only rough estimates.
The anaglyph page is not directly linked to any other web site 
that I know of. The dual image page (cross-eye, free view, JPS) 
is linked from the VRex 3-D Expo page, the interlaced page is 
linked from the Stereography Megazine web site. The main page 
is direct linked to three or four Burning Man related web 
sites.

One depressing thought is that people might chose the dual image 
page because they aren't viewing in stereo at all, and simply want 
to view the images flat, in that case the dual (free view) page 
would be the most popular. :-(  I hope that is not the case. 

So bottom line, I enjoyed the new images and I applaud your 
efforts to reach out to a broader audience.

Harolddd



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