Compression

[pasithea]

Two unrelated throughts linked by a work.

The first is visual compression. I was thinking about cameras and this made me think about lenses which made me think about glasses and artwork. It occurrs to me that in a camera, depth of field is altered by distance between the two lenses and the curvature of the lense. So how does this affect the depth of field of people wearing glasses? They have a longer distance between the lense of the glasses and of their eye so a reduced depth of field? Also, how does this apply to big glasses versus small glasses. Would there be a particular design of glasses that is more form-revealing to an artist than another type of glasses? Which are superior for grasping dimensionality? Glasses or contacts? Which famous artists wear glasses versus which do not? Could switching back and forth between glasses and contacts help one visually think about flatting out images? Or mabe this is all optically corrected for in the lense design and I'm just off my nut (again)

Time compression is next. Less interesting than the previous topic. Mostly a self-reminder for how to get everything done between now and the convention. Letsee. So at work at lunch I'm going to be working on the rosette things for design class (due this coming Tuesday) and during the FC meeting tomorrow I'll see what I can get done on one of the FCTV animations. Same with during class on Tuesday. I think I'd better finish up the secret costume and then measure peggy for the top part of hers tonight so that I can get them started in case there's anything I need to brew on. Oh yeah! I also need to export Free As a Bird to video and truck it into Marty on Tuesday so that I can come in 5th in the Media Arts competition.

So much to do, so little time!

Alsoalso. Geez. My tuition is more than double what it was this time last year. It's like there's a republican in office or something. Oh wait. That wasn't a nightmare. it's real. :/

Comments

On visual compression...

[breisleach.livejournal.com]

On, I think, this line of thinking... I took Photography in high school, and I found that I had a lot more trouble successfully focusing my images when I wore glasses than when I had my contacts in. This applied mostly during the actual taking of the picture, but seemed to kick in a bit when using the darkroom as well. Now, I could be a fluke, but... There's at least one bit of anecdotal evidence.

Another anecdotal observation

[doctorpinkerton.livejournal.com]

When I make the mistake of putting my glasses on first thing in the morning (out of laziness), by the time I put in my contacts for the rest of the day, my eyes have adjusted to a different depth of field. So at that point I'm spatially screwed up for at least 5 irritating minutes...

Re: Another anecdotal observation

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! I remember that from when I wore contacts. I'd be most annoyed because I would interpret nickels as quarters and vice versa. There was nothing worse than blearily dragging to the soda machine to find out you were forty cents short.

Pure awesomeness.

[masstreble.livejournal.com]

Hi! I'm from queer_rage and I read about your experiences in that Oklahoma U. I lived in Oklahoma for a few years, and I wanted to say that you are awesome. You're my hero for the entire month.