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[photo-3d] stereovision for the blind


  • From: keithangus <keithangus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: [photo-3d] stereovision for the blind
  • Date: Mon, 29 May 00 18:25:32 +0100

>It would be interesting and entertaining even for
>people without any auditory impairments. A
>stereoscopic color organ!?! Has it been done?
>
>Gabriel

I don't know about a stereoscopic colour organ, but in Huymans' 
novel'Against Nature' the character Des Esseintes develops a 'mouth 
organ'from an array of liqueur casks as  

"each and every liqueur, in his opinion, corresponded in taste with the 
sound of a particular instrument. Dry curacao, for instance, was like the 
clarinet with its piercing, velvety note; kummel like the oboe with its 
sonorous, nasal timbre; creme de menthe and anisette like the flute, at 
once sweet and tart, soft and shrill.... thanks to an erudite 
experiments, he had been able to perform upon his tongue silent melodies 
and mute funeral marches; to hear inside his mouth creme-de-menthe solos 
and rum-and-vespetro duets. He even succeeded in transferring specific 
pieces of music to his palate, following the composer step by step, 
rendering his intentions, his effects, his shade of expression, by mixing 
or contrasting related liqueurs, by subtle approximations and cunning 
combinations".

On refection such a 'mouth organ' might create a stereoscopic colour 
organ as a side effect... perhaps I'll have a go.

Keith