P3D Re: Good Old Henry

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

>THE PERFECT STEREOSCOPIC PICTURE
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>"A perfect stereoscopic picture should be one that, when seen in an
>instrument, it would appear that we are looking at nature itself,
>without the interposition of any medium, and produce the same appearance
>as, for instance, if we were looking at a view through an open window."

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> 	1.  Good old Henry is suggesting that the highest function of
> stereography is to replicate reality (as it is perceived by us humans with
> approximately 2 1/2" interocular depth perception).  If that is the case
> then we don't need stereography at all!  Why not just look at "nature
> itself" or directly at "a view through an open window" without the use of
> any "medium" or "instrument" of any kind?

Why do we need this mailing list?  Why don't we just talk to each other
without the use of this medium?   Why are books used?  Why don't
authors just tell me their stories in person (including the ones of
centuries past)?  Why bother with 2D photographs, just look out the window
with one eye!

I think I agree with old Henry.  But in saying that, I don't mean that
replicating reality is the ONLY goal or even an acheived goal.

Goals of artistic expression can be done with or without stereography
while stereography has the golden differentiating function 
of "replicating reality".

Stereography is reality-reborn even if the reality being replicated 
is an imaginary one.

Mike K.


P.S. - The last line sounds like a joke, but it isn't one.  I think
       the original quote is being interpretted too literally.  Key
       words are "it would appear that".


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