[photo-3d] Judging directions [Was Re: Elian Gonzalez]

[Jim Crowell <crowell.20@xxxxxxx>]

>It was interesting how this picture was being interpreted.
>One side said it was proof that the federal agent was
>pointing his rifle at Elian and the other side saying it
>was on Dalrymple (or neither?).
>
>Looking at the image, I couldn't help wonder, how easy it
>might have been to resolve, if the image was in 3-D! As
>much as some 2-D photographs can invoke very powerful
>emotions and and convey great information, it was
>interesting to see how limited it was in this case.
>
>In any case, it looked to me, he was pointing it at the
>fisherman.
>
>Gabriel  

"All the news, in 3-D!"  Must be a potential market there... :-)

Actually, I have an interesting counter-example (to two eyes being better than one).  On a trip to the Santa Cruz Mystery Spot a couple of years ago (it's one of those places where you can get compelling illusory displacements of e.g. what direction is up, so that a ball appears to roll up-hill; the tour guides describe it as a "mysterious force, unknown to modern science!"), I noticed that some of the illusions were a lot less compelling if you closed one eye.  Not sure why, it struck me as bizarre.  The Mysterious Force must have been affecting my mind... :-)

-Jim C.
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