THE MAGAZINEOF 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING, PAST & PRESENT May/june 1994 I Volume 21, Number 2 F Touring the Centennial More!? Stereogram Books More "Hyper)' I-& Selections e we wait for responses to the "Wheels" assignment to W"arrive, here are two more of the entries selected in the "Hyper" assignment.c-?%sent This isn't limited to rustic wagon wheels being used as fences or the chrome hubcaps of overly cus- I tomized hot rods. Anything that moves on, under or by wheels is fair game here, including cars, trains, unicycles, pretzel carts, shte boards, etc. Things like large pul- leys or tiny watch parts would also be eligible, as would spherical rolling devices fie ball bearings or selves would not have to be the "Jim Drennan in the Camzo Badkrnds" by the ball on the underside of a com- center of interest in views of things Rich Fairlamb of Tome, CA was taken puter mouse. The wheels them- (contimud on 16) in Anza-Borrego Desert Park just east of - Sun Diego in Febmary, 1993. The 30 foot sepomtion details the rugged texture of "Hubbk T- Gets Astonishing Stereo of Etpbding BkKk Dworf Star..." or, "West- the landscape better than any contour em Pptechnia Fimvoh Show, HdtM'Ik8 CA, July 4, 1988. " Quentin Burke of map, with the rare added feature of a HdMlk entered this imaginatlw image, taken with the help of Ellen Burkc on the ver- human figure to show scale. bally synchnmlzed left camem at a 16 hot sepamth. Fih msT&X exposed at V11 mW,aboutafiVTscoandcxpasun. 7?x~jnint@pcrk~andthentmns- I Volume 21, Number 2 May/June1994 THE MAGAZINEOF 3-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING, PAST & PRESENT A Guided Tour of the Centennial Exhibition ............. 4 by Peter H. Fowler A Board of Directc Sharing the Best .......................................................... 17 4ndy Criscom, Chairman Review by John Dennis Paula R. rlernlny David HI~tchison Dieter Lorenz T.K. Tre tadwell Single Image Stereogram Books ................................. 18 ... Nalton Reviews by johrl Dennis Ifficers ~uist,Preside 1 1 PhotoHistory IX and Movies Too .............................. 21 ... jonn w Larry Hesr ,, Secretory I)avid Wheeler, Treasurer More Nature Co. 3-D ................................................... 29 Review by john Dennis )lCrCV VVVllU 3LUll John Dennis, Editor Mark Willke, Art Director Lois hBldsmith, Subscription M4anoger NSA Membership (New m,~rnbersl~ips, renewoir & oddrers c Comments and Observations, by John Dennis 2 P.O. Bc)x 14801, Columbus, OH 43214 Editor's View .................................. Questions Concerrling Subs'cription Reader's Comments and Questions Larry Hess, (2'19) 272-5431 Letters ..................................................... 3 Ba Stereo World ~ckIssue 5 News from the Stereoscopic Society of America, by Norman 8. Patterson (WrrtP for OVOIIC~bility&prices.) The Society ........ 22 P.O. IBox 398, Syc,amore, OH 4 >rererr - o World Editorial C Newviews Current Information on Stereo Today, by David Starkman & Iohn Dennis .......... 24 (letters to the ed~lor,ortrries h coimdar 1 5610 S E 71st Ave., Portland, OR (503) 771-4440 Calendar A Listing of Coming Events ........................................................ 30 Stelreo World Advertis ing (Closs~fi~dh dirploy ads) Classified Buy, Sell, or Trade It Here ..........................................................32 P.O. BI ~x 14801, Columbus, OH 43214 (Insert flyers & auction ads) ,C"'Cy ,\,aus, 1 Lauren Dr., Gardiner, NY 12525 I! Sterec1 World RIegular Fei New\/iews ct n,>,,rl - - , Box 2368, Culver C~ty,CA 902 Centennial Photographic Co. No. 2044, "KANSAS & The Society COLORADO STATE 6. INTERIOR." One of the more Norman B. Patterron unusual exhibits at the 1876 Centenniol Exhibition Noodlawn Ave.. We<leyv~lle.PA ' in Philadelphia was this huge model of the Kansas The Uniknowns State House mode of fruit and vegetables. (Note the Neal BulI~ngton many "Honds Off" signs.) Peter H. Fowler's feoture London Dr., Tra verxe City, MI 4' article "A Guided Tour of the Centennial Exhibition" \/;o~A!- .,L.. ,.,".,c=,fi compares the sights of the exhibition as stereo- Wollgang & Mary Ann Sell grophed by the Centennial Photographic Company Broadv~pwDr, C~nc~nnat~,OH 4x1~6 with written accounts of many of the same subjects iver Wendell Holmes found in the New York Times. ~+~~~~scoP~cJLLl L, Research L~h-an~ (Affiliated wilh tlir Notionc11 St~reorcopicAr Easter n College, St , Davids, PA 1 Stereo World(ISSN 0191-4030) is publ~shedbimonthly b the National Stereoscopic Association, Inc., P.O. Box 14801, Columbus, OH 43214. Entire contents 01994, all rights reserved. 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Color issues surprisingly well - at least as they Drawing on his years of experi- of Stereo World often involve appeared on the screen. With the ence as an editor at Starlo'q Press, Ssome delay but our "March/ work load still too heavy at David calmly reassured me by April" 20th anniversary issue set Wy'east in late May, it was decided observing that he had never in his new records in that department. To that the final negatives would have life seen such a hopeless mess and the many members who feared to be generated at our regular that in theory, so many things they had been forgotten and to all printer in Ohio from computer could never go wrong at once in the readers and advertisers frustrat- disks containing the high-resolu- the real world. Fortunately, he was ed by its lateness, we offer our tion 4-color images as well as the also blocking the door to the bal- deepest apologies. "low-res" instructions for their cor- cony at the time and insisting that It's tempting to blame the delay rect placement. (This ended up we try to document the actual on the size of the issue (60 pages requiring the shipment of twenty- number and variety of problems counting covers) or better yet on two 88 megabyte disks - more than involved in this Chernobyl of pub- the sudden abduction of the print- some people in the digital imaging lishing misadventures. ing press by space aliens for use in business have ever seen at one As an alternative to using a pho- some bizarre sexual rites on the far time.) ny name on his convention tag, side of Titan. But neither of the On June 17th, color page-proofs SW Art Director Mark Willke had above really had much effect on from the resulting negatives were already prepared a special paper our schedule. The complications shipped from the printer directly to badge reading "Don't even ask actually started with a very high the NSA convention hotel in Mil- about the MarchIApril Stereo World volume of regular commercial jobs waukee where we hoped to use unless you like horror stories!" and at Wy'east Color in Portland, OR them as physical evidence that we had run off a copy for me as well. I (where NSA member Dwight Cum- hadn't spent everybody's money filled him in on how the horror mings generously donates color on Czechoslovakian stereo nude story had just passed from the Kaf- separation work) which required reels and that the issue was actually ka realm into something by postponing the free work on Stereo close to being printed. As it turned Stephen King as I pinned on the World at several points during its out, hotel guests and clerks were the little warning sticker. Like a preparation. spared the sight of a crazed editor stereo Scarlet Letter, it actually Surrendering completely to the leaping from the atrium balcony warded off questions by most of temptations of digital imaging, we screaming something about "com- the throng and may even have had decided to do all the SW image puter-fraud-sabotage" thanks to the generated some outright pity for placement electronically (for the presence of NSA Board member this hopelessly outnumbered pro- first time) for this special issue. The David Hutchison at the opening of duction staff of two. idea was to save a lot of the time the long-awaited package. After maintaining a calm front and effort involved in manual After being lulled into a prema- (broken only by an occasional stripping of the 4-color negatives ture euphoria by the beautifully whimper) through the rest of the into the full page negatives. Unfor- done cover we discovered that convention, I returned to Portland tunately, the department where roughly half of the stereo pairs in and Wy'east with my sad tale of this was to happen was even busier the proofs were pseudoscopic, and computer generated woe. While by the time all the images had even those that weren't seemed to going over the depressing proofs been scanned and the issue was have been dropped into place by a yet again, we learned that the com- finally ready for electronic image- one-eyed robot with no regard for puter on which I'd so precisely setting in early May. Arrangements stereo window or decent alignment placed the image pairs in position were then made for this to be done of any sort.