P3D Re: The Imagination Effect

[boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Boris Starosta)]

>From: koganlee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
...
>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

That depends on the picture and the color intensities.  If the picture is
of a landscape, it will appear hyper; if it is a macro of a bug, it will
appear hypo.  The head and shoulders portrait may appear quite orthoscopic.

>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.

I find this works surprisingly well with some people!  Some of the best
imagery I have seen, indeed inspirations for my own artwork, came from
books with only words in them, no pictures.  The imagination is not to be
discounted, and writing a diary can capture some subtleties that no picture
can.

>Sounds like the emperor's new photography to me.

Indeed, emperors can afford biographers.

and, from Bob Wier:

>From: wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob Wier)
>I've experienced another dimension (slight pun) in stereo vision where there is
>actually a hyper effect - I saw this most strongly in driving down the
>Interstate
>south of Salt Lake City. The highway parallels the Wasatch mountain range for a
>considerable number of miles. As there aren't a lot of trees, you get a good
>view of the mountains off to the East. Moving south at about 60 mph, I

Now this is something I've taken greater notice of since I started with
stereo photography.  Although I was at first reluctant to consider the
beauty of hyper-stereo because of its "non-realism", I now feel able to
embrace aand enjoy some carefully done hypers, because they remind me of
this effect - an effect I really enjoy when driving or riding my bike.




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