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3D movies are completely intelligible.
2D movies also work quite well. The human brain is flexible enough to
extract meaning from flattened pictures without even noticing a
problem.
So.
1D movies.
A horizontal line (obviously) onto which all of the action is projected.
This would
focus the minds of movie-makers more on matters such as
plot and characterization, and less on special effects.
Flatland: The Movie
http://en.wikipedia...Flatland:_The_Movie
THe book described the 2D in a really neat way. [nomocrow, Sep 24 2010]
For some reason I'm posting this link
http://www.youtube....watch?v=OmSbdvzbOzY
Cute movie. [doctorremulac3, Sep 24 2010]
1D game
http://lysisgames.com/games/1D.html
(plays in your browser - needs Flash) [Loris, May 10 2013]
[link]
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However, this system still requires considerable
distracting manipulation of neck and eye muscles to
follow the action across the screen (line),
obfuscating
p & c. |
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Couldn't all the action simply be projected onto a
single point? Project the point near the top of the
tiny screen so tall persons do not block your view. |
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Same idea, one less wasted dimension, |
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It may be an inconvenient truth but it's certainly the
way to make a point, or a series of points. |
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I'm not sure that the technology to project in 0D can be
developed in the near future, [Boomer]. However, your
forward
thinking does you credit. |
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The more so for [Boomershine]'s extension of the idea. Of course, the even more logical extension would be the projection of the action onto nothing at all. The resulting movies could then be broadcast via radio, saving time and expensive projection equipment. |
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//Couldn't all the action simply be projected onto a single point?// |
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In the old days, when your mother turned off the TV, the 2D image would shrink to 0D and glow like a star, and you would stare at it, imagining all the great shows you were missing. |
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[MB]//However, your forward thinking does you
credit.// |
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Thank you. I get a better view of things up on your
forward thinking shoulders. |
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//...the 2D image would shrink to 0D and glow like
a star, and you would stare at it, imagining all the
great shows you were missing.// |
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That fading dot was my favorite part of TV. I miss
it. |
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//... so tall persons do not block your view...// |
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<sigh> I'm in the back row again, am I? |
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Indeed not, [Grogster]. I was thinking of you when I
suggested projecting the point to the top of a screen.
This is just another advantage of the so-called 0D
system. Less image area to be blocked by tall persons. |
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Ah, there's a good lad! (pass the popcorn) [+] |
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{nods} - Hey, I can see it now |
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So a Zero-Dimensional movie theatre would basically
be a radio with a lightbulb in front of it. |
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If it were a colour-changing LED array, or similar, it
could be used to set the mood. |
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However, it would necessarily include a time
dimension, meaning that if you wanted to have true
0D, you'd need an illuminable dot that is not
illuminated. |
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I already have a 0D television. When I turn it on,
there's a very small point of light on the front of it
within which I can imagine the 3D visual dynamics of
whatever show I'm watching, whether it be "The
Archers", or "The Shipping Forecast", or, if I am
unable to reach the "Off" button in time, "You and
Yours". |
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//But it’s not really 0D, as it has the dimension of
time. And amplitude.// |
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Exactly, [IT]. Thanks for pointing this out. And
neither is 1D really 1D. |
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The dimensions of time (which we don't usually count
in video displays--4D?) and amplitude are what allow
1D and 2D to work at all. Without them (especially
amplitude) they would be invisible. |
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Removing the elements of time and amplitude would leave us with a package in which the entire plot and characters co-exist at any point in time and generate no dynamic output. |
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This package could conveniently be encoded in a series of static, visible symbols, arranged on laminar surfaces. I proposes we call this a book. |
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I suppose there could be a screen of micro dots and each audience member would get a set of really powerful magnifying glasses and watch any one of every film that was ever made. Your head would need to be held rigid in a clamp, to prevent even the most tiny of movements, so that probably makes it a stupid idea. |
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Och, dammit. My telly is only set up to play in the vertical axis... Another great [Jb] purchase that I can connect up to my Betamax video, HD-DVD, and Sony Mini-Disc. |
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[Twz][xen] Now you are beginning to see the beauty
of [Max]'s ingenious idea. |
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I'd certainly like to see more work put into plot
dimension. |
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Another plotted point would give some direction to
the story, perhaps? |
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In this medium, if a critic wrote "The characters are flat and
two-dimensional" would that be praise? |
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A 0D movie is what you would see if you looked into the business end of a single-mode optical fiber streaming said movie signal in optical binary format. You would need to think fast, though, to decode it into the proper human form. |
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I'm glad you thought it was great twice. |
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You may need to either start or stop taking the tablets. |
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I tried watching a minus 1D movie once. I think it
was something about achieving some state of
emptyness or bliss or somesuch. I got bored and
turned it off. |
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