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P3D Re: Faking it? No!


  • From: "Gregory J. Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: P3D Re: Faking it? No!
  • Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:12:04 -0700 (PDT)

IMO, it's only quackery when in real life the photographer would have
seen depth when looking at the scene with his/her eyes -- but the
image provided shows none.

If the actual scene *is* flat, then is mother nature guilty
of quackery because she shows no depth to the human eye? 

To me, quackery is when a falsehood occurs, and a stereo image
that is true-to-life isn't a falsehood, even if it looks flat.

> is necessary to even begin to convey what you experienced (ignoring the
> obvious wide-angle distortions it usually produces).  If you go around
> looking at the world through a pair of toilet tissue tubes, then your
> Realist might be capturing what you experienced.

That's a sticky path for arguement.  One also won't experience the
heat, the wind, the chill, the hotdog smells, etc.  What the realist
might show is indeed a subset of the experience, but a panaoramic 
image also is a subset as well.  Saying one subset is proper, and
another subset isn't ..... uh..... sticky.  :-)

Mike K.

P.S. - I only speak in terms of using the hyper method of "fixing it",
       not adding a little foreground before the jump to infinity.


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