P3D Re: Cardboarding

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: PgWhacker <PgWhacker@xxxxxxx>


>>I often encounter it in stereo prints.  I've run into it in ViewMagic
>>over-under
>>prints, and in Holmes card format prints (including some of my own).
>
>    Yes.  But over a period of a few weeks if you look at stereo prints
>often enough, your brain will adjust and the cardboarding will go away.


This may be true, but I'm not sure it's a *good* thing.  One of the ways we
encourage other people to get interested in stereoscopy is by showing them our
images.  If we've "adapted" to the shortcomings in those images, we become less
selective about which images are our best...  I have a Holmes-Bates stereoscope
at work, and a selection of stereoviews I took at a company function.  People
visiting my cubicle will occasionally pick it up out of curiosity and have a
look.  At least one person remarked that "it looks like things at different
planes" (or words very closely to that effect).  He was obviously seeing what
we've been calling cardboarding, and in that particular view, I can see it too.

I still wish I knew exactly what part of the process to attribute it to, though.

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)




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