P3D wax figures

[Peter Abrahams <telscope@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>Oddly, two people at work said the people looked like wax figures...
>better than someone telling me they looked like cardboard cut-outs...

Wax figures look sculpted, and in higher relief than actual faces.  This is
partly because they're shiny, the colors are more vivid, the wax sculptor
often uses sculptural tricks to give a work more impact, the lifelessness
of them lets us 'approach closer' without feeling like we're violating
someone's space, and other reasons.
Stereo photos can be hyper, to enhance depth, and chances are your photos
are somewhat hyper.
Similar effects can be seen in binoculars that have objectives more widely
spaced than your eyes, objects look modeled.  When Zeiss introduced the
commercial binocular, they seized on this enhanced depth in their ads &
called it 'plasticity'.
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Peter Abrahams   telscope@xxxxxxxxxx
the history of the telescope, the microscope,
    and the prism binocular


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