New OpAphid Forum and Story Arc: "Parallax"

lookyz · Post by **lookyz** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:17 pm

Wasn't there something about Bree seeing the world from a whole new perspective when she was 4 after a fight with her parents? Something about an eyepatch?

Lola · Post by **Lola** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:25 pm

What a great excuse to re-watch "The Parallax View." One of the great paranoid conspiracy films of the '70s.

tigerlilylynn · Post by **tigerlilylynn** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:17 pm

lookyz wrote:Wasn't there something about Bree seeing the world from a whole new perspective when she was 4 after a fight with her parents? Something about an eyepatch?

Yup she had a lazy eye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZN-Wye4rDE

girlAnachronism · Post by **girlAnachronism** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:56 pm

Hooray! Forgive me as I SQUEE!!!

and you may now get back to your general rejoicing.

/me runs off searching for her Tachyon dartboard...

bethy · Post by **bethy** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:50 pm

YAY!!!!!! A term I know...well, I only know it because my husband is an amateur astronomer and I tag along to his club meetings and star parties. What can I say? We're geeks.

For the non-scientific types...a really good example of parallax can be done right were you're sitting now, and you've probably done it many times in your life.

Look across the room and focus on an object in front of you. Your monitor will do. Now, close just one eye. While opening that one eye, close the other at the same time...all the while focusing on the object. It moved! It changed! Or did it?

The object didn't change at all, it just appeared to do so because you shifted the way you look at it. Or you didn't have "both eyes open".

It seems that it's time for a perspective shift, or we're going to get to see OpAPHID from somebody else's point of view.

Another really good way of understanding it is to think of some books or movies you may have experienced where the same story is seen through different characters in different sections rather than an omniscient viewpoint.

SapereAudeo · Post by **SapereAudeo** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:51 pm

This story arc also fits in well with the OpAphid video where the perspective changed so that we were looking at the inside of the eye instead of the outside.

/loves new Arcs!

tiltingwindward · Post by **tiltingwindward** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:01 pm

If you'll all pardon me for one moment...

[insert mad scream of joy here]

...you may now return to your regularly scheduled tilting.

Jewelybug · Post by **Jewelybug** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:14 am

I am so excited for the new ARC! by the way Minty... that picture of daniel scares me

JustAnotherLonelyGirl. · Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:50 pm

HoorayForMeImMakingOut · Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:08 pm

woot! $\:D/$

Patti · Post by **Patti** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:31 am

Hi! I'm new, but an interesting thing I noticed...

I have a mac, and using the dictionary feature on my mac, the definition for parallax is:

the effect whereby the position or direction of an object appears to differ when viewed from different positions, e.g. from the viewfinder or lens of a camera

Don't know how interesting that is to everyone else, but I thought I'd share.

tigerlilylynn · Post by **tigerlilylynn** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:25 pm

Parallax is also a very cool comic character.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_%28comics%29

The story was retconned but originally one of the lanterns went psycho and turned evil. The retcon was a retelling where the parallax parasite took over Hal and made him be evil. Semi-on topic I feel.

Killthesmiley · Post by **Killthesmiley** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:58 pm

tigerlilylynn wrote:Parallax is also a very cool comic character.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_%28comics%29

The story was retconned but originally one of the lanterns went psycho and turned evil. The retcon was a retelling where the parallax parasite took over Hal and made him be evil. Semi-on topic I feel.

well thats interesting...especially with all the Y-Man information.

HoorayForMeImMakingOut · Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:59 pm

I like the new set-up, it's easier to find stuff!

nobackspacebutton · Post by **nobackspacebutton** » Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:21 pm

I love this setup..it makes things sooo much easier.

Like OpAphid For N00bs.

New OpAphid Forum and Story Arc: "Parallax"

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