On April 13, 2005 10:14 am, Bill Reid wrote this amazing epistle:
Gilbert's very interesting talk last night reminded me of a book I read a few years ago on the rules that our brain uses to create what we see. It was a fascinating read.
http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/%7Eddhoff/vi.html
He has created a number of Java applets to demonstrate how we create the motions that we see.
http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/%7Eddhoff/vi6.html
-- Bill
A followup to the idea of how the brain interprets what it sees. After the meeting someone brought up the idea of 3D surds (sorry I can't remember your name). A surd is a random small thing. In this context, a series of random pixels used to produce a 3D image. The first use of surds I encountered was in a different context. It was a table of random three letter combinations, with actual words removed. The idea was to see how the mind would intrepret the surds, when read or spoken. Hopefully this would give insight into language and thought processes, much like the Rorshach (I can't remember the spelling of this anymore) ink blot tests. Since the brain likes patterns (I gather this is a primate thing) it tries to make sense out of randomness. A fascinating area.
I might submit ASCII line printer art might, to a small extent, fit in with the concept of 3D images. Mostly in terms of the illusion of depth and perspective rather than from the point of view of Gilberts presentation. Although oddly enough I saw an image intended for an inkjet printer with the red-cyan ink combined with ASCII art. I could be wrong, but I think there is a *NIX program which would produce this from older ASCII art.
Later Mike