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I may have to debate you on Episode III not being that great a movie  true, it wasn't THE BEST of the saga, but it was a damn sight bteetr than the previous two. True about the opening credits being able to wash your cares away. I've seen the opening crawls too many times to admit, and there's always that feeling of awe/wonder/excitement that gets stirred up. Glad to see that Carl was able to enjoy himself, and didn't let the confrontation spoil his fun. Now perhaps Rick can be convinced that the M.I.A. isn't  gay  (as he put it) at all. Maybe the Institute needs an opening theme for visitors when they walk in the main doors.:)
| number    = 941
 
| date      = August 22, 2011
 
| title    = Depth Perception
 
| image    = depth_perception.png
 
| imagesize =
 
| titletext = I've looked at clouds from both sides now.
 
}}
 
 
 
==Explanation==
 
This comic is very self-explanatory as it explains what he is doing every step of the way.  This is one of those xkcd's that is all about emotion and feeling for both [[Cueball]] and the reader.
 
 
 
Ancient stargazers though the sky was simply a domed ceiling like the 2nd frame on the top line.
 
 
 
In the first frame of the 2nd line, Cueball puts HD webcams on the tops of football uprights, so "hundreds of feet" apart would be 120 yards (360 feet) apart exactly.
 
 
 
Cueball uses strong reading glasses and reversed webcam images to greatly expand his {{w|Depth perception}} using the principle of {{w|Parallax}}.
 
 
 
The title text is a line from "{{w|Both Sides Now}}" by Joni Mitchell.
 
 
 
==Transcript==
 
:[The comic is narrated by an unspecified person. All dialog is shown in boxes overlaid on the comic panels.]
 
 
 
:[The panel background looks like a cloudy sky, with the clouds all running together and appearing as a blue
 
:grey smear.]
 
:I've always had trouble with the size of clouds.
 
:I ''know'' they're huge. I can see their shapes.
 
:But I don't really see them as objects on the same scale as trees and buildings.
 
:They're a backdrop.
 
 
 
:[A person stands on a flat disk inside a hemispherical dome with the front half cut away. The dome is labelled "Sky", and the disk is labelled "Ground". The dome is about twice as tall as the person.]
 
:Stars are the same way.
 
 
 
:I know they're scattered through and endless ocean, but my gut insists they're a painting on a domed ceiling.
 
 
 
:((The next two lines of dialog are stretched over the following three panels.))
 
:[A person stands on a curved surface, looking up.]
 
:If I try hard enough, I get a glimmer of depth, a dizzying sense of space,
 
 
 
:[The perspective of the scene shifts, suddenly the surface the person was standing on is in the top left of the panel. The person is now looking down, leaning back, and waving their arms trying to regain balance.]
 
:But then everything snaps back.
 
 
 
:[The perspective of the scene returns to normal, the person is now semi-crouched, staring at the ground with legs spaced apart to help them balance.]
 
 
 
:[An American football field is shown, with sections at the tips of the goal posts highlighted and shown as a zoomed view in an insert box. The goal posts each have a webcam mounted on top of them.]
 
:So one summer afternoon
 
:I set up two HD webcams hundreds of feet apart,
 
:Pointed them at the sky,
 
 
 
:[The next two lines of dialog are stretched over two panels each.]
 
:[The first panel shows a pair of glasses with the note "Very strong reading glasses." and a smartphone with an attachment designed to clip onto the glasses. The smartphone screen is setup to display two images side by side such that one camera is visible in the left half of the screen, and the other camera is visible in the right half of the screen.]
 
:And fed one stream to each of my eyes.
 
 
 
:[The next panel shows the completed phone glasses assembly.]
 
:The parallax expanded my depth perception by a thousand times,
 
 
 
:[The person stands wearing the phone glasses assembly, staring into the sky.]
 
:And I stood in my living room
 
:At the bottom of an abyss
 
 
 
:[The person now stands on the shore of an unidentified coastline (possibly Boston?), a city is near their right foot and the tallest skyscraper appears ankle high. A mountain range is behind them that is also barely ankle high. The person is standing with their head well above cloud level as clouds swim around them.]
 
:Watching mountains drift by.
 
 
 
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Revision as of 13:55, 23 November 2012

I may have to debate you on Episode III not being that great a movie true, it wasn't THE BEST of the saga, but it was a damn sight bteetr than the previous two. True about the opening credits being able to wash your cares away. I've seen the opening crawls too many times to admit, and there's always that feeling of awe/wonder/excitement that gets stirred up. Glad to see that Carl was able to enjoy himself, and didn't let the confrontation spoil his fun. Now perhaps Rick can be convinced that the M.I.A. isn't gay (as he put it) at all. Maybe the Institute needs an opening theme for visitors when they walk in the main doors.:)