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The Little Man in the Tower
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THE TINY
WORLD
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SKULL
P eople can be deceived by very convincing images, to the point
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that they may assume that these images are "real."
The first motion picture show in history is an interesting illustration of
this. In Paris in 1895, two French inventors, Auguste and Louis Lumière,
beamed onto a screen the image of a train approaching a station. Even
though the train was only two-dimensional, and appeared in flickering black
and white, yet most of the audience in the hall fled in panic, because they
believed the train was about to crush them!
As this example shows, one’s perception of any image as "real" is closely
related to that image’s technical quality. Today, however, even more
realistic cinematic effects can be achieved thanks to special glasses that
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