P3D Re: Audio VS Video

[Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999
>From: markaren@xxxxxxxxx (Karen Obusek)
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>A final counter-point if you will Greg Wageman, but I still cannot
>relate audio terminology to photography despite your explanations to
>conclude that they are similar. For example, lets use a stereo landscape
>image and apply these terms: 

*****  There are close similarities between vision and hearing relative to
stereo perception. That's true even when similar terminology does not exist
or similar concepts use totally different words. The terminology for vision
related issues is perhaps more precise or more developed due to our
historically greater dependence on vision and our relatively undeveloped
sense of spatial factors in hearing.

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>Audio and photo terms are related to the extent that the sensation of "
>taste" and " hearing" are related. Both senses require skin, nerves,
>blood supply, a stimuli etc. I still think it's a s t r e t c h to
>compare audio and photo terms as equivalents.                      Mark
>Dottle
>

*****  Consider that blind people can learn to navigate and observe their
surroundings with their hearing. Dolphins develop a very good inner image of
their surroundings based on reflected sound, much like what we might
experience using a flashlight at night. Bats have been considered near
blind, though it's not true of all bats, they definitely do depend heavily
on spatial clues in reflected sound that work very similar to what we do
with binocular vision. Terminology often grows as our scientific
understanding grows, however it's hard to shake the terms that we inherit
from a distant past less blessed with understanding. That past did not
recognize the existing similarities between vision and hearing that we
understand today.

Larry Berlin

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