Kenneth Snelson: Chain Bridge Bodies

Artist(s):

• Kenneth Snelson

Title:

Chain Bridge Bodies

Exhibition:

• SIGGRAPH 1991: Art and Design Show

Creation Year:

1990

Medium:

Photographic print (stereo pair)

Size:

40 x 50

Category:

• 2D & Wall-Hung

Technical Information:

Hardware: Silicon Graphics Personal Iris.
Software: Wavefront Technologies.

Other Information:

Most people familiar with graphics computers have heard the expression “free viewing” or “free fusion” of stereo images, a fool-the-eye method of seeing stereo pictures in 3D without the aid of a device. Free fusion is also a delight for the spatial senses once the technique is mas­tered. At last year’s SIGGRAPH, a friend told me he’d grown so used to free view­ing on his computer that the instant he sees two stamps on an envelope he instinctively refocuses hoping that they might turn out to be in stereo. On a graphics computer, system permitting, one can use two software camera windows side-by-side, and view directly in 3D to readily place object on the z axis without the need for electronic spectacles.