X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,274367e9eb2ff917 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-05-09 00:39:21 PST Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!msuinfo!via-annex1-13.cl.msu.edu!user From: corcora5@student.msu.edu (Neil p Corcoran) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Stereograms for Art Class Followup-To: alt.ascii-art Date: 9 May 1994 06:37:04 GMT Organization: tHe pANthER mOdERns Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <2q8qh1$b68@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <2qalna$rfm@mercury.dur.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: via-annex1-13.cl.msu.edu In article <2qalna$rfm@mercury.dur.ac.uk>, N M Miners wrote: > Bryan D Levenson (blevenso@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote: > : [snip-o] > : What I need you brilliant people to help me with is this: what is the idea > : behind seeing them or not seeing them. How can I use these media to create > one > There's a problem here - Stereograms are generally computer generated and > as such are probably impossible to recreate using charcoal, chalk and pastel. > > To view stereograms takes patience and practice, but the results ARE (or > rather CAN BE) impressive. If you look carefully you'll generallt find a > repeated pattern of dots (or whatever the SG is made up from). You need > to `uncross' your eyes (like going crosseyed only in reverse - a bit > harder, I have always thought) as if you were looking at something behind > the plane of the SG (it helps sometimes to put a pane of glass ov The concept (i've recently found out) is that of "Hypersight" (ooo, I love it!, Hyper-anything!) the ability to 'overextend' your focal vision. You stare at your reflection is a pane of glass to help you see twice as far as the image is from you. Once you become pretty good at it, you can look at a plane sheet of paper, or a Usenet article, with one on it and 'force' the image to pop out. Best of luck, they are a pretty cool idea. Anyone know the source? -Neil -- :: Neil p Corcoran :: // SocioCyber Anthropology | memetic\..... //______________________________| '''''\conduit :Guerilla Semiotician: / "TV is not feeding us what we want; there's no ->pgp key by arrangement// reason to stay at home.."-Brian Davis,Cyberseed