The Holographic Principle

rodfish · Post by **rodfish** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:43 pm

Actually it's not a teapot; it's 3 teapots. Look closely, there are two behind the first smaller one.
Very cool!

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 9:47 pm

rodfish wrote:Actually it's not a teapot; it's 3 teapots. Look closely, there are two behind the first smaller one.
Very cool!

I'm not staring at it anymore! I don't care what you say!

BoneQuint · Post by **BoneQuint** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:03 pm

rodfish wrote:Actually it's not a teapot; it's 3 teapots. Look closely, there are two behind the first smaller one.
Very cool!

Actually, you can get several variants by focusing in front of the screen (crossing your eyes) like Lamby did, but they're all "negative" -- the background jumps out in front of the screen, and the "teapot" (or 3 blobs, or patterned row, or whatever, depending on how close your eyes are focused) is indented into the background. To see the proper pot, you have to focus behind the screen.

rodfish · Post by **rodfish** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:19 pm

BoneQuint wrote:
rodfish wrote:Actually it's not a teapot; it's 3 teapots. Look closely, there are two behind the first smaller one.
Very cool!
Actually, you can get several variants by focusing in front of the screen (crossing your eyes) like Lamby did, but they're all "negative" -- the background jumps out in front of the screen, and the "teapot" (or 3 blobs, or patterned row, or whatever, depending on how close your eyes are focused) is indented into the background. To see the proper pot, you have to focus behind the screen.

Yep; I can see the "proper pot." Saw it the first time I looked, but then I looked a bit closer and there were three. Then I looked again and there was one. Then three; and then one again. There's a small one with two behind it; plain as day.
I think I'm going to stop looking...

trill · Post by **trill** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:01 am

Mr. DJM:

Milagro!

Thos instructions worked for me the first time!

I see:

a) a vertical back wall
b) a horizontal surface, with a gap between it
and the back wall
c) the teapot floating in mid-space

It even moving my head a little left/right/up/down!

thanks for the tip!

trill

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:45 am

If you cross your eyes the other way, you see a hollow teapot. This is no fun, so don't do it.

fyffer · Post by **fyffer** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:00 am

... and if you stare even longer, it suddenly turns into a screaming ghoul-zombie ...

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:18 am

I think that this is the shark mentioned before.

Some more fun with Stereograms and Autostereograms.

I like the animated ASCII Stereograms.

Rod Sprague · Post by **Rod Sprague** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:04 pm

Uh, what's it mean if you can climb up into the picture and find a whole other world beyond the edges of the picture, like you simply climbed through a window in the computer screen?

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:16 pm

It means you've been letting those Narnia books prey on your mind.

Try that Calculus book of ID-10.t's. And wear a safety line at all times.

djm · Post by **djm** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:34 pm

Shed a tear for the oysters as you eat the very last one.

djm

dfernandez77 · Post by **dfernandez77** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:40 pm

djm wrote:Take your glasses off.

Put your nose right up to the screen.

Don't look at the pixels on the screen - look behind them.

Slowly draw your face away from the screen.

You may need to move your eyes around a bit to pick up the outline of the object.

Gradually you should be able to bring the image into focus. Don't take your face more than 6-8"away from the screen until you can pick out the outline of the image.

Hopefully that will work for you.

djm

Watching you do this would be a hell of a lot more fun than seeing the danged teapot.

Please post a video.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:45 pm

oh, yeah!!!! I think we'd all like to see that

djm · Post by **djm** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:51 pm

No matter how hard I stare into this damned camera, I just can't see the tea pot like I could on the monitor. And now there's a big oily spot from the end of my nose on the lens. Somebody's going to have to clean that up.

djm

dfernandez77 · Post by **dfernandez77** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:56 pm

djm wrote:No matter how hard I stare into this damned camera, I just can't see the tea pot like I could on the monitor. And now there's a big oily spot from the end of my nose on the lens. Somebody's going to have to clean that up.

djm

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