[HN Gopher] The Claude Glass Changed the Way People Saw Landscapes
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The Claude Glass Changed the Way People Saw Landscapes
Author : Hooke
Score : 49 points
Date : 2021-03-20 16:06 UTC (2 days ago)
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| yboris wrote:
| Some photos of large Claude mirrors and information:
| https://frogenddweller.wordpress.com/2016/02/28/claude-glass...
| pruthvishetty wrote:
| First recorded use of AR.
| dreen wrote:
| > On the face of it, it's a somewhat absurd concept. Imagine
| tourists flocking to a famous beauty spot, only to turn around
| and fix their eyes on its reflection in a tiny dark mirror.
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| Every single tourist spot on the planet is filled with people
| looking at the objects of interest before them through a
| smartphone. I'm surprised the article does not make that
| parallel.
| jfengel wrote:
| At least with the smartphone, you're taking a picture you can
| look at later, and share with friends.
|
| It does seem odd living your life though the lens of expecting
| it to be future. But it really highlights the oddity of
| sightseeing at all: what's the point of going to look at a
| thing? OK, it's the Eiffel Tower, or kudus at the zoo. And...
| now what?
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| Perhaps the greatest example of this is the Mona Lisa. You go
| to see a painting that you've seen a thousand times before, and
| seen more clearly. What else are you going to do but grab proof
| that you actually did it?
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| I've been in places that were unutterably beautiful or heart-
| wrenchingly meaningful. One of my most treasured photos is a
| piece of cave art that moved me to tears... though I couldn't
| get a good photo in the darkness. My photo is of a postcard in
| the gift shop. (I was backpacking and didn't want to carry
| stuff, but I did make a donation.)
|
| That kind of thing easily becomes habit. "I took a picture of
| the meaningful thing, so maybe if I take a picture of this the
| meaning of the experience will become clear later". Tourism
| often leaves me feeling like I missed something. I've tried to
| get better at it, both by letting myself feel nothing when the
| site turns out to be unimportant to me, and by looking for
| things I didn't expect.
| privong wrote:
| I first heard about Claude Glass while reading "Landmarks"[0] by
| Robert Macfarlane. While Claude Glass was only briefly mentioned,
| "Landmarks" itself is one of those wonderfully deep books that
| invites slow reading. The richness of nature language (that we
| seem to be losing) has been rewarding for me to explore through
| Macarlane's experience. I paid attention to nature before, but
| since starting to read "Landmarks" I have more regularly zoomed
| in on details and how features of the landscape vary subtly from
| place to place.
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| [0] - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/536563/landmarks-
| by...
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| Edit: Fixed author's first name. Thanks @zzleeper!
| zzleeper wrote:
| *Robert Macfarlane. For a second I thought John had added being
| an accomplished writer as a side gig to philosophy and coding
| jack_riminton wrote:
| A similar technique used by painters is to squint really hard at
| something so that the subject is reduced to its most basic parts
| cs702 wrote:
| See also: https://petapixel.com/2012/04/29/claude-glass-the-18th-
| centu...
| twic wrote:
| This makes me think of circular polarizers, and the effect they
| have on skies and landscapes, which is well-known to
| photographers but perhaps not to the general public:
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| https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/uk/tutorials/use-a-polari...
|
| I wonder if this is something that could be incorporated into
| smartphone cameras quite easily.
| privong wrote:
| > I wonder if this is something that could be incorporated into
| smartphone cameras quite easily.
|
| I imagine it'd be straightforward to put a circular polarizer
| in front of a smartphone camera lens. But people might not like
| the 1-1.5 stops of light lost because of how it would
| affect/limit low-light photography. I suspect the latter is
| more important to most people than the effect of a polarizer on
| sky color in a photo.
| renewiltord wrote:
| I believe modern smartphones auto bracket on time and exposure
| and just AI adjust. I know most of my friends with modern
| cameras take ridiculously beautiful photos as a matter of
| routine.
| sanj wrote:
| A physical manifestation of Instagram filters!
| mensetmanusman wrote:
| That's what it sounds like, but also just useful to look at and
| paint:
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| https://www.waikereru.org/assets/images/news/claude-glass.jp...
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