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P3D Re: infinity at zero convergance


  • From: Jim Benbow <blip23@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: P3D Re: infinity at zero convergance
  • Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:57:26 -0700

Eddie Bowers <eddieb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Wrote:

>You don't have one (at least that your brain perceives). If the image in a
>viewer filled your whole field of vision then a window at infinity would be
>appropriate, but most of the time it does not.
>
>>Sure, it is best to only have the flower, mushrooms, or wing tip extend
>>from the screen with no clipping at the edges - it is a great effect. 
>>But the fact is that most of the real world just doesn't look like that.
>
>It does if you are looking though a window, and that's the convention you
>force on the viewer anytime you can't fill the field of vision.

I've noticed that I don't see objects "coming though the window" when using a
viewer. I can, however, see the "coming at you" effect when I free view the
slide or when it is projected. Is this common?

Jim Benbow