P3D Re: The Imagination Effect

[koganlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On 10/31/98 12:13:04 you wrote:
>
>>I experienced a similar effect first time last year and found it too
>>real and stunning to be completely "imagined."  ...In this respect I'd say 
it is stereoscopic.
>
>During a rather intense period of activity on 3d computer graphics use
>a couple of years ago, I was freeviewing so much that I got to the point
>where it was difficult *not* to see things in stereo, even if there were 
not
>two views present. I attribute this to other depth clues in the image, such
>as shading, objects obscuring other objects, chromadepth, and pufritch
>effects. This was
>a distinctly different "feel" than intellectually knowing the depth 
ordering
>of objects via "analyzing" the picture - it "felt" like stereo (for want of
>a better term).
>
>I would not have believed it possible had I not experienced it myself...
>

My questions for the people who are "perceiving" stereo in two dimensional 
images are: How much depth do you see? Do you ever see hyper-views? If you 
are used to making hyper-views will you then see hyper-views? 

My comment is: If someone can teach me how to do this maybe I won't need to 
actually make 2 photographs each time I make a stereograph. Maybe I can just 
go back to regular photography. And then maybe I can learn to just see the 
image in my mind without actually using any camera at all. Reminds me of an 
idea a friend and I kicked around for awhile. We'd have a photo book with no 
actual images, just a description of each one at the bottom of each blank 
page.

Sounds like the emperor's new photography to me.

David Lee


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