Tribal rivalry (day 145)

I took one look at the morning schedule for the Stereoscopic Displays and Applications and decided to crash one of the other conferences: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging.  They were having a full session the high dynamic range (HDR) light in Ansel Adams photographs, capped with a tour of an Ansel Adams exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art.   It was a glorious morning and I remembered who my tribe is as soon as the lights went down and the pictures started talking.  The exhibit was of Adams' early works and contained some old prints from the late 30s.  I loved the pictures of more intricate subjects like grasses and roots.  He could really make texture come alive just as he did majestic shots of landscapes.

I toured the rest of the exhibits and barely made it back in time to hear engineers talk about depth maps.  I learned something.

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