Different points of view...
Oct. 23rd, 2007 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI've had vague ideas for a project showing how different people (and animals, but that's a whole 'nother vector) see things, in the physical sense, myopia and presbyopia, astigmatism, different kinds of colorblindness, limited fields of vision or blank spots, and so on. (And if it included animals, there could be faceted eyes, and dim vision augmented by smells, and even more complicated things.)
Which is probably too much to do without a science museum exhibit.
But an installation could work to show myopia and presbyopia.
There could be some pieces of 3D art in the middle of a circle, something with noticeable detail on it, circled by something looking like pairs of binoculars (either hanging from sticks by a chain, or fixed at one height with a step or two available to let people of different heights look more easily. Instead of binoculars, they'd have lenses fitted so there'd be different views of the middle piece. The first would be 20/20, then moving out from that, near to one side, far to the other, by 20s out to 100, then by 50s or 100s, to 1000, which would be next to one another. Someone with perfect vision (or corrected to 20/20) could see how things would look if there weren't correction.
I'd share my first in the morning/last at night blurry world.
Of course, I have practically no idea of how to implement this, even just getting lenses ground to the correct curve, even without figuring out a reasonable piece for the middle.
Which is probably too much to do without a science museum exhibit.
But an installation could work to show myopia and presbyopia.
There could be some pieces of 3D art in the middle of a circle, something with noticeable detail on it, circled by something looking like pairs of binoculars (either hanging from sticks by a chain, or fixed at one height with a step or two available to let people of different heights look more easily. Instead of binoculars, they'd have lenses fitted so there'd be different views of the middle piece. The first would be 20/20, then moving out from that, near to one side, far to the other, by 20s out to 100, then by 50s or 100s, to 1000, which would be next to one another. Someone with perfect vision (or corrected to 20/20) could see how things would look if there weren't correction.
I'd share my first in the morning/last at night blurry world.
Of course, I have practically no idea of how to implement this, even just getting lenses ground to the correct curve, even without figuring out a reasonable piece for the middle.