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Re: On a boat at sunset
Keith Martin 2006-Sep-19 12:54:00
Sometime around 19/9/06 (at 05:59 -0500) Caroling Geary said:
>Instead of trying to get a smooth experience of being on a boat at
>sunset, you could try to make a pano of the rough sea experience and
>the changes in time. Have you ever seen the futurist paintings of
>Francis Picabia? Or the famous "Nude Descending a Staircase"?
Exactly! I've been thinking the same things, but you've expressed
this very well. One interpretation of Transportation implies
movement, and shifts in viewpoints can present a strong dynamism
that's not normally achieved.
>I say break the rigid mold of seamless stitching in your mind.
Caroling, you might enjoy a brief glance at an experiment I made some
time ago, shooting hand-held and specifically not being at all
careful to rotate 'properly'.
http://www.thesmallest.com/vr/unused/cubistvrexperime.html
(This is cubist in the fractured viewpoint sense, not in the
360/180-degree sense; it is just a simple cylindrical pano.)
k