Re: resolution, useless & otherwise

[T3D Greg Erker <erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John B wrote:

>I've heard that the hawk family has the receptors packed closer together.
>The eagle has excellent vision with an eye roughly the size of ours.
>I'm all for a little genetic engineering here.  8-)

  What exactly would you do with those better eyes?
Ogle girls on the beach from a distance?  :)
If they had the same improved vision they could
still tell you are starring :)

  More seriously (and 3d related), 35mm stereo
is at the lower limit for resolution and film grain.
With better vision it would be an even worse
approximation of reality.

  MF stereo would replace 35 mm in terms of having
barely adequate res and grain. We'd all have
to switch to 4x5 and Wheatstone viewers.

  With 2D movies I have to sit fairly far
back in the theatre so that the screen
perforations aren't visible to me. I find
white shirts seen on the perforated pattern
especially annoying. It's kind of like
cartoons where a character has a plaid suit
and the character moves but the plaid pattern
stays stationary. (My friends hate when I
point out the perf problem, because then it
becomes visible to them too :)

  Actually, improving any of our senses
(except maybe for low light ability) would
just cause problems in our modern society.
Hearing 10x as sensitive? An octave lower and
higher? No thanks. Improved sense of smell,
if it wasn't switchable would be a problem
also.

  To throw in some equations: F=ma and you
can't push a rope. (A quote from one of my
1st year engineering profs on everything
you need to know to be an engineer.)

Greg E.



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