FreeRepublic Hologram

Action America ^ | 1/16/2004 | John Gaver

[Action-America]

Don't let your boss find out about this, he just might give you some work to do...

The boss just found out and you were right. She told me to clean the kitchen.

(I am an investor and work at home. That's why I post so irregularly and at such weird times of day.)

 

[Action-America]

Those of you who could see the FreeRepublic Hologram, at the top of this thread, might find this interesting, too. Someone did a great job of programming a 3D Pong Game in Java. I can see the holograms, but my mind reels at the work that had to go into writing that program. Writing a Pong game is easy. But, keeping the 3D image in tact at the same time boggles the mind.

The only way that you can play it is if you can see the hologram. Here's a hint. To beat the computer, you must hit a glancing blow off one side of the paddle, so that the ball goes into one of the two top corners at a sharp angle. It requires no mouse clicks to move the paddle - just left and right mouse movements.

Here's the URL for the instructions. The link to the actual game is on that page.

http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3rebas/creative/martinsoft/spong.html

ENJOY!

 

[petuniasevan]

That is so cool! But I can only play for so long before I get eyestrain...but it IS fun (and better than the original Pong!)

Thanks!

[NYTexan]

ROTFLMAO!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Bummer. Seems to be a bad link. Mozilla says www.pong2001.net could not be found.

[GirlShortstop]

Thanks a lot.

ROFLMAO!

[RikaStrom]

self-ping for later attempt

[A Mississippian]

Nice job bump!

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Wow; the image looks GREAT!!

Nice, nice work.

:*)

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Arrrgghhh, I have never been able to see these things.

I have always thought that these things were a giant practical joke. I have never been able to see any thing but swirls of colors.

But then I usually don't see optical illusions of any sort.

For those that can see it I am sure that it is lovely.

[LowOiL]

Ok, after a couple of hours and playing with it on my Photoshop (sharping the image), I can finally see it. The two dots on the bottom do help when you know how to use them (view until three dots appear with the middle one being the most prominate).

Neat Stuff, needs sharping up though.

[Action-America]

A truly amazing thing just happened. My wife, who has tried to see these things for years, just saw this one.

The trick that finally led her to see it was when I drew a vertical line through the dot on the right and a horizontal line through the dot on the left. When the two dots become three (it will go from two to four to three), the center dot will have a plus sign in it, since the left and right dots appear to overlap. Here is how the dots appear at different viewing depths.

Your gaze is not deep enough (4 dots - 2 horizontal followed by 2 vertical):

    --    --    |    |

Your gaze is too deep (4 dots - horizontal, vertical, horizontal, vertical):

    --          |      --          |

Your gaze is the right depth (3 dots - horizontal, plus sign, vertical and the center "plus" dot is in sharp focus):

    --          +          |

When the plus appears in the center dot, wait until the vertical line stabilizes (stops drifting from left to right), before trying to move your gaze upward. My wife tells me that this method and this description is what worked for her. In the few minutes since she saw this one, she has seen three others that she had not been able to see before. Without the lines, she still has trouble getting started. But, once she can see one, she can easily see others, that are designed at the same depth, as long as not too much time elapses between them. However, when I gave her one designed to have a deeper view, she had to go back to the lines again.

I hope that this helps.