P3D Re: Henry and Reality

["Oleg Vorobyoff" <olegv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rod Sage wrote


>One reason I enjoy photos of any type is that they immortalize a
frozen
>moment in time, never to happen again. Something you will not see if
you
>look out the window. Combine that moment in time with 3D and you have
>the 4 dimensions xyzt. A great way of reliving things past.


"Frozen in time" is an apt characterization of 3D photography, but I
question the mathematics.  Isn't 3D xyzt - t, or xyz?  The novelty
appeal of 3D is that it restores the z element missing in the popular
recording media: photography (xy) and video (xyts), where s is sound.
Of these, I'd say that unedited video, is best capable of recapturing
the past, if objectivity is the goal.  But still missing are the
smells, the bodily feelings, the heat or cold, the ability to focus
independently on one item or another, walk to it, touch it.  Despite
recent technological innovations, the older media and art forms -
speech, letters, sculpture, poetry, to name a few - often do a better
job of of re-evoking past realities.

So what is there about 3D besides novelty?  I suspect it can achieve a
certain type of purity.  Pure xyz.  Distillation of space, in the same
way music can seem to be a distillation of time.

Oh, yuk.  Well, Dr. T did relinquish the podium a couple of messages
back, didn't he?

Oleg Vorobyoff


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