| From: | Walter Scheper Ratlaw@*******.com |
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| Subject: | 360 degree vision (WAS: Munchkin overkill) |
| Date: | Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:13:17 +0000 (GMT) |
<fpelletier@******.usherb.ca> wrote:
[snip granny killing]
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>That's not a really good example, man. A 360 Panorama photo, a screening
>at the latest Imax/Omnimax theater, or a run at a Disney ride, they MIGHT be
>built on 360 screens, but WE see them 90 degrees at a time. You don't get
>360 degrees of info all in one shot.
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>I think you could one day see 360 degrees of info. In fact....
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>I think you could wire it to trick the brain into thinking you're seeing 360
>degrees of info. Check this out:
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>A permanent display link would overide your normal vision. Instead, you
>would be presented with something new. A 360 degree camera, mounted
>somewhere on your body (Probably a little over your own head), would take in
>the information, and a processor would transform the input into a shape that
>would enable you to see every part of the input at one time.
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>Imagine the info being caught as something of a cone, with you sitting
>inside it, in the middle, right in the center. Now imagine taking a
>snapshot of that (with the 360 camera), and digitally manipulate it so that
>you would end up with the equivalent of cutting up one side of that cone,
>spreading it out nicely, and then superimposing that on your vision. The
>image would be distorted, and depth perception would be out the window, but
>hey, you can't get everything.
>
One way of viewing 360 degrees is mentioned in the Battletech novels:
compress it down to 160 degrees. Of course in the case of translating
it into something the brain can see, compress it down to the field of
view of the normal eye (i think someone said 90 degrees or 120
w/peripheral vision). Then you just need to go through some serious
physical rehabilitation so that you can know where things are now,
since 2/3's of your vision isn't what's directly in front of you,
anymore.
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>Trinity
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>Frank Pelletier
>fpelletier@******.usherb.ca
>"Let them hate me, provided they fear me" - Atreus
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>Trinity- on the Undernet and EFNet
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Ratlaw
