Collegian
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by Bill Warner
Collegian Science Writer
When someone says 3-D
pictures, what comes to mind?
Hmrnmm well there are the
weird red and blue paper eyeglasses
that look like Elton John hand-me
downs. Then you have those
strange blurry things jumping out
of the screen and the ensuing
industrial strength headache from
trying to focus on those blurry
blobs. Add it all up and 3-D does
not seem like a very successful
special effect.
While it is true that three
dimensional movies leave
something to be desired, they are
poor representations of 3-D
photography. According to the
book Photographing in 3-D
published by the Stereoscopic
Society of the United Kingdom, the
process dates back to the 1850's. 3-
D imaging, originally known as
stereo photography, gained the
attention of Queen Victoria at the
1851 World Exibition in London.
It caught on as rapidly as
photography had and by the advent
of World War I, millions of stereo
photographs were being viewed in
homes around the world.
Poetry Corner
the eternal.
the room is old
black cement except
where one red bulb hangs
on its ancient noose
and the music was a delicate alien
i...felt abandoned in this mode
(almost everything she said)
shaking her leather back
slithering along the, city night
walk to the center of the room
with my red eyes
red eyes
twisting hard against the floor,
alexia in leather
(falling out of context within myself)
these days,
tell me no forever
today behind wails
forever
forever
and the time is lost inside me
by: peel
If. saw you the other day
You saw me , too
You didn't look twice
-Have something better to do?
I'm doin' what I wanna do
You're doin' what everyone else does
Tell me it isn't boring
Cause I sure'as hell thought it was
Open your mind you fool
DOlf_t stop asking "Why?"
Do what you Tivanna do
Is:Text time you'll say "Hi". • -
Eye Science
3-D imaging is based on a very
simple concept. When we look at
the world, the distance between our
eyes (about 65mm) gives us two
slightly different angles of view.
This subtle difference between the
two views is the reason we perceive
depth in our vision. A 3-D picture
duplicates this depth of vision by
using two photographs. Some 3-D
pictures are taken with special
cameras. There is also a simple way
of taking them with an ordinary
camera. First, a still object is
photographed with a standard
camera (usually 35mm). Then the
camera is moved precisely 65mm to
the right and the same object is
photographed again. The first photo
represents the view from the left
eye and the second represents the
view from the right eye.
In polarized stereo photography
these two images are superimposed
on each other, (producing an
anaglyph) and viewed through the
familiar blue and red lensed
eyeglasses. The traditional viewing
method takes a different approach.
The two photographs are mounted
side-by-side and placed in a
stereoscope. The stereoscope has
special lenses which focus each eye
on it's corresponding photo. A
modern example of the stereoscope
is that rainy day friend from
childhood, the VIEWMASTER.
Amazingly enough, some people
can view 3-D pictures without a
stereoscope. Behrend's own Norman
Where did you go?
I haven't seen you for months.
Busy at home and keeping out of the cold I suppose.
I never did ask you where "home" was. I was always just so glad to see you
• I miss our talks on the talks on the porch on summer nights...
You used to rap on my window and call me and I'd get up and we'd sit on the porch and watch the cars go
by and feel comfortable alone, together, in the dark with no one around.
You'd sit on my lap and we'd talk about everything to no end, being quiet so as not to wake anyone asleep
You were so easy to talk with and just your expression alone when you didn't answer me right away told
me you understood all to well what I was getting at anyway.
My only complaint was that you always decided when our talks were over, no matter how important the
topic we were on at the time. Just as I was coming to the point I was trying to make all along, you'd stand
up and look at me and say 'good-bye' and walk away...alone...in the darkness, leaving me mid-sentence all
by myself to deal with the insomnia that always hit me when you left. I was always too disappointed at
your desire to go home instead of staying with me that I forgot to ask when you'd be back.
But I didn't worry too much, Ripley, because there wasn't a week that went by without you stopping by at
least one night.
The last night you left was no less indifferent than the first, except that now the chill of autumn nights
made me put a coat on for our talks and made the trees lose theirs for the winter to come. You walked away
and you never came back and I wondered if you had found a new friend or moved or...worse. I'm afraid I will
never know and frankly, Ripley, that would be a shame
because you were the best friend I ever had...as far as cats go..
Is this a life?
Well? Is this a life?
Hellos and goodbyes that flash by quicker
than we can say them?
Paper mache dreams that dissolve
under guilty raindrops?
Memories of hurts and pains and things that
haven't even happened yet?
There is no respect or dignity in life.
Human life is a bad joke and every one
of us is the punch line.
We can't control life for life is a series
of uncontrollable emotions.
We cant even choose to die without
becoming a criminal.
Is this a life?
Rather just a game, I think, where no one'
wins and everyone ultimately loses.
Life after death is a bad dream.
Having to go through life for all eternity nullifies
the definition of hope. -
I don't want to go through this again.
If life was a game of Monopoly I would have turned
in my race car a long time ago.
We are all toys.
Plastic hollow figures strapped into race cars and
left out in the sandbox.
GI Joes fighting imaginary enemies within us.
Promiscuous Ken and Barbie dolls thrust and pressed into
position by the hands of some snot-nosed child yet
unaware of thestupidity of life and not yet asking itself
Is this a life? ,
MEM=
m=um
B. Patterson is one of those people.
According to Professor Patterson,
"freeviewing" is the act of "towing
out" one's eyes by focusing on the
same spot on each photo with each
eye, somewhat like crossing your
eyes in reverse.
Patterson is the president of the
American chapter of - the
Stereoscopic Society and we would
like to thank him for providing
information for this article.
3-D photography can be done
by anyone with a camera, and
interested shutterbugs should stop
by at Professor Patterson's office
or write to:
NEXT ISSUE: Things that lurk in
your bed and live in your food!
The Stereoscopic Society
2922 Woodlawn Avenue
Wesleyville, PA 16510
Ripley
in the house
ViewPoin.t On Life
by Terry Anthony and Jim
Hale
Collegian Staff Writers
In our last episode, we left our
favorite collegiate columnists
nursing nasty headaches of
undetermined origin. But before we
get into this week's article, we
must apologize for its contents.
Due to technical difficulties beyond
our control, (Spike, our killer
gerbil, ate the manuscript) , we will
not be able to define the college
student's role in "The Behrend
Experience" as promised in our last
issue. Instead, we have decided to
deviate from the beaten path to
bring you the following narrative
on consumer awareness based on
our own personal experience.
Our story began two years ago
when our princes of the printed
page decided that what they needed
to give their social life a shot in the
arm was a car. Not just any car,
but the Terry and Jim Party-till-the
girls-are-so-drunk-they-don't-notice-
your-zits-mobile (this was during
the era that Jim was the Clearasil
ACROSS DOWN
1 A tense 1 Kind of job
5 Loco 2 Louise or
9 Latterly Loos
14 Toward 3 Artist Jan
15 Ripening 4 Discard
agent 5 Did a jig
• 16 "The 6 Israeli coin
Mutiny" 7 Parade. e.g.
17 Neckwear 8 Timid
18 Take of 9 Play part
19 Flow 10 Flour type
20 Pueblos' foes 11 Even-steven
21 Skulked 12 Numerical
23 Roman date prefix
24 Cure-all • 13 NL team
26 Persia today 22 Baggage item
28 Packet 25 No-good-nik
29 Guess type 27 Standout
33'Side dish 29 Antelope
36 Smooth 30 Severed
37 Untatch: 31 Blade
poet. 32 Moose's kin
38 Ilium 33 Use a dirk
39 High jinks 34 English
40 Joshua composer
41 Miscellany 35 Dawdle
42 Lighter part 36 Computer
43 Gossamer sheets
44 Succor 39 Crease
46 Insect 40 "Ain't that
47 Inflame
48 Equine leg
part
42 Shame!
43 Prescribe
45 scholar
46 Grew to be
48 Last game
49 Of rams. etc
50 Thrashes
51 Joints
52 Powder
53 Metal beam
54 Young 'un •
56 Supplication
59 is: Fr.
52 Josip Broz
55 Subject
57 Russian
58 " with Me"
60 Arm bone
61 Possessive
62 Great Bear
and Slave
63 Squad
64 Blow-dart
• poison
65 Wave part
66 Store event
67 Hardy lass
answers:
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poster boy). Acting on a hot tip
from a guy named Vinnie selling
watches out of his coat pocket, they
hopped on the blue bus in search of
Fast Eddie's Car Emporium. Lady
Luck was smiling on them, and
they found Eddie selling electronics
out of the back of his pink caddy to
a nice man in a purple leather
jacket, red satin shirt, and tight,
tiger-striped pants.
Jim approached the proprietor
and asked him to show them his
preowned auto inventory. Ed said
his lot was being sprayed for bugs
so he had to park his inventory on
various streets throughout
Wesleyville. At Eddie's
suggestion, the three of them
hopped into Ed's car and cruised
around. Lucky Ed said to holler if
they saw a car they liked. As they
turned a corner, there it was. Terry
spied it first and his eyes glowed
with excitement. In front of them
was the stuff dreams are make of - a
1972 Chevy Vega station wagon
convertible. She was a beauty, a
veritable party machine, complete
with leopard skin seat covers, fuzzy
dice on the mirror, and a squirrel
tail suspended from the antenna.
After congratulating the wonder
writers on their good taste, Ed said
he must have left the keys back in
his office. But he quickly remedied
the situation with a few deft moves
with a coat hanger and a
screwdriver. He crossed two little
wires and it roared (sputtered) to
life. Sitting behind the wheel of
that baby was better than lying
naked in a vat of potato salad.
Then Jim noticed the item that
clinched the deal - A stereo that
defied definition. This was no
ordinary radio, no sirreee but an
original Delco AM radio and
matching 8-track tape player
combination, topped off with one
speaker with 3.2 watts of
headbanging power. The perfect
system for jamming to their
favorite rock superstars, including
Abba, Julio Iglesiais, and Barry
Manilow.
Honest Ed said he'd even throw
in a new paint job and file off those
annoying little serial numbers for
them. Then he threw in a set of
hubcaps from the Mercedes parked
across the street at no extra charge.
The price? A steal at S 600!
(Payable in small, unmarked bills).
Success may be a state of a state of
mind.
Perhaps a bloated ego that is much too much
refined
To seek solace in chaos may be hazardous to
your health
But such may be the result, when bent on the path
of worldly wealth
Remember to keep a perspective that is proper, true,
This is insurance that you'll last many a year
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eatures
To finance their ticket to
popularity, those miracle men of
the media rationalized that Terry
could chip in his rent money and
sleep in the car, while Jim would
throw in the money his dad gave
him for books (heck, he'd never read
them anyway).
They picked up their shiny 'new
love-mobile the next day and shook
hands with Lucky Eddie. Then they
drove off in search of adventure at
the hair-raising speed of 35 wild
miles per hour, only to be stopped
by a nasty looking policeman. He
said their stud-buggy resembled a
car that had been reported stolen the
day before and asked if it belonged
to them. A wide smile came to the
faces of our heroes as they proudly
claimed themselves the owners.
"Can I see your pink slip?", the
officer asked them to step out of the
car and produce some I.D.
Although Jim tried to stop him, it
was too late - Terry had already
flashed his press pass, still tattooed
on his belly-button. Soon the
words "Cuff 'em!" were ringing in
their ears.
At the station, our heroes told
the police to call their buddy
Friendly Eddie to substantiate their
claims. Things looked dim when
they learned Eddie's office had
mysteriously burned down that
morning and Fast Eddie was on a
plane to Brazil.
So ends our story. We hope all
you kids out there have learned a
valuable lesson from this.
However, don't expect to see our
journalism junkies on campus
much in the next few weeks, as
they will be deeply involved in 400
hours of community service.
In the meantime, keep those
cards and letters coming. Well try
to answer each of them personally,
and maybe even publish a few of
them in an upcoming issue. Until
then, if •you meet up with Eddie,
ask him if he accidently borrowed
Terry's wallet.
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