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  1. tenex

    Interview with Zeiss Senior Optical Scientist

    Thanks Ed, but no, "perception of distance and space" does not answer my question. What specific aspects of Gibson's theory could be relevant to binocular design, and how? (A single example would do.) Assuming Gibson's theory was actually correct, of course; I didn't easily find evidence of...
  2. tenex

    Interview with Zeiss Senior Optical Scientist

    No, let's not. My comments were not "misapplied" and my question was not "rhetorical": How would Gibson's theory influence the design of a binocular? I don't know; you might. I took the trouble to read the article you linked; you can take the trouble to offer an example of how it's relevant here.
  3. tenex

    Interview with Zeiss Senior Optical Scientist

    I don't imagine most people think about it at all, this "seagull" hold just happens naturally because we don't often pull our elbows together. (It's also ubiquitous in films...) Upon actually thinking, elbows below make more sense. As I noted, I've read only Goldstein's brief article, so my...
  4. tenex

    Interview with Zeiss Senior Optical Scientist

    I finally got around to the article you linked, admittedly brief, but am having trouble seeing the relevance of Gibson's theory to the design of optical instruments... or, well, to anything. First there's the nearly total lack of evidence: "In fact, it has been noted that 'Gibson wrote with a...
  5. tenex

    Interview with Zeiss Senior Optical Scientist

    Aha, there's my reading list! ;) But the unfortunate thing about this (somewhat implausible) claim that optical designers have simply been ignoring important practical implications of modern understanding of visual perception for the last 50 years, is that you don't consider yourself free to...
  6. tenex

    Interview with Zeiss Senior Optical Scientist

    Thanks Ed. That underlined sentence was quite opaque to me, as I remarked previously.
  7. tenex

    Interview with Zeiss Senior Optical Scientist

    I'm with Binastro. I also disagree that this is market-driven, a natural difference of human world-view -- rather something in the nature of late capitalism, its evil discovery that advertising can induce most people to buy just about anything, regardless of whether it's actually better or they...
  8. tenex

    Interview with Zeiss Senior Optical Scientist

    Among the questions that actually were answered, ;) this is even more elliptical than usual. What distortion is he talking about here, pincushion or... ?, and what "gradient" of it are we conditioned to expect? So we can't talk about it? What then are the objective goal "numbers" based on? I...
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