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Another glimpse into Chelsea’s newly-revealed obsession with Peter. Kinda makes you wonder how long she’s been watching him like this.
An interesting little bit is the cliche “binocular view” effect used up there. In reality looking through a binocular actually looks like a single circle — because of how your eyes focus through both sides at once and merge into one solid view — so I always wondered where the idea came from of having two connected circles in silhouette representing it. It’s just another one of those things that makes no real logical sense but is widely accepted as the norm for storytelling purposes, I suppose.
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December 28th, 2009 at 1:16 am
Because the single circle is the universal comic standard for a telescope.
December 28th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
You’d think a cat would be much more at ease up a tree than Chelsea is…
December 28th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Um, EZZY, sorry
December 28th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
The binocular silhouette is caused by the comics being drawn using perspective instead of being drawn in true 3 dimensions. The error introduced by the perspective transform from 3D to 2D (denoted as 2D(x,y) = P{3D(x,y,z)} ) becomes more severe as the coordinates approach the observer (or in other words, as y approaches 0). This causes the two halves of the binocular view not to perfectly align in the 2D comical domain.
(I can probably ramble pages of this pseudo science, but it’d bore you to death)
January 22nd, 2010 at 1:59 am
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
February 19th, 2010 at 11:21 am
Took a break from reading for a while when updates slowed–I’m so happy to return and see so many new pages! I hope school is going well for you, too…
Anyway– It’s my opinion that the dual-circle for binocular view might’ve just been a good way to include more in the frame ^__^ You can fit more detail into two viewing circles than 1.. Just as with a telescope, you’re limited to looking with one eye and can only see -so much-…. With Binoculars, you’re looking with two eyes and can have a broader view. *shrug* Just a hypothesis ^_^ It could also be that we’re looking through the binoculars through the character’s eyes? Since we’re not the ones looking through them, the focus isn’t exact? lol. I like the 1st idea better.
March 7th, 2010 at 7:26 am
Okay i’m stating to get the feeling that Chelsea has a crush on pete or she’s just deranged and could be a stalker.
May 12th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
My dad gave me a Bushnell Binoculars and they are quite superb, excellent optics and very nice zoom. i could watch sexy babes from several hundred meters.’`:
February 19th, 2011 at 8:22 pm
me thinks chelsea has a crush on pete
March 1st, 2011 at 2:07 pm
im sorry to say this but maybe u should get chelsea and peter together because well i just fell sorry for chelsea and because im the same way