P3D Re: Lack of Understanding?

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

> >>Does anyone remember the movie *Contact*? The plans for the travel device
> from the aliens were formulated in 3D which created an almost impossible
> communication barrier... The story may be fiction, but the concept of our
> lack of 3D understanding (as a species) is very real.
> 
> The fact that the billions of people on Earth have stereoscopic vision, and
> because everything we do and experience is seen and listened to in 3D,
> please explain why you feel we have a lack of 3D understanding? We
> understand it well enough to have developed the ability of recreating depth
> in photographs.

It was a weak argument in the film (which is one of my all time
favorites, and I've seen it at least a half-dozen times thus far).

However the specifics had to do with pages of written/drawn diagrams that 
appeared to look like multiple pages of a document.

I don't think there is any 3D used for text sort of documents like
the ones shown in the movie.  All of my books are themselves flat
documents, with flat pages, even the ones that have stereoscopic 
photos on them!  The document *themselves* are 2D.

In the movie, the document itself was 3D.

Weak arguement, but adequate. :-)

Mike K.



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