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The Cultural Landscape of Three-Dimensional Imaging

The Cultural Landscape of Three-Dimensional Imaging

Sean F. Johnston
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781466649323|ISBN10: 1466649321|EISBN13: 9781466649330
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4932-3.ch009
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Johnston, Sean F. "The Cultural Landscape of Three-Dimensional Imaging." Techniques and Principles in Three-Dimensional Imaging: An Introductory Approach, edited by Martin Richardson, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 212-232. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4932-3.ch009

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Johnston, S. F. (2014). The Cultural Landscape of Three-Dimensional Imaging. In M. Richardson (Ed.), Techniques and Principles in Three-Dimensional Imaging: An Introductory Approach (pp. 212-232). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4932-3.ch009

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Johnston, Sean F. "The Cultural Landscape of Three-Dimensional Imaging." In Techniques and Principles in Three-Dimensional Imaging: An Introductory Approach, edited by Martin Richardson, 212-232. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4932-3.ch009

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Abstract

This chapter explores the cultural contexts in which three-dimensional imaging has been developed, disseminated, and employed. It surveys the diverse technologies and intellectual domains that have contributed to spatial imaging and argues that it is an important example of an interdisciplinary field. Over the past century-and-a-half, specialists from distinct fields have devised explanations and systems for the experience of 3-D imagery. Successive audiences have found these visual experiences compelling, adapting quickly to new technical possibilities and seeking new ones. These complementary interests, and their distinct perspectives, have co-evolved in lock-step. A driver for this evolution is visual culture, which has grown to value and demand the spectacular. As a result, professional and popular engagements with 3-D have had periods of both popularity and indifference, and cultural consensus has proven to be ephemeral.

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