472: SUPER WOLF BLOOD MOON - JAN 20, 2019

Photos taken last night of the Lunar Eclipse as seen from down in the desert of Southern Utah. Clouds parted just minutes before totality.

 

470: THE PARALLAX EFFECT: The art of fooling the senses to believe something is authentic

Parallax is a late 16th century word that means ‘the fact of seeing wrongly’. The origins of the word comes from the French word parallaxe, and from the Greek word parallaxis which means ‘a change,’  and from parallassein which means ‘to alternate, to vary,  to decline, to wander'.

A parallax effect is used in computer graphics where background images move past the camera more slowly than foreground images, creating an illusion of depth in a 2D scene and adding to the sense of immersion in the virtual experience. 

For some, this effect when viewing 2D images on a large screen can cause dizziness, nausea, motion sickness and vertigo. 

I think it is interesting that a new "movie" that was released  worldwide yesterday uses this effect.


Sidenote:

From the Old Testament LDS Seminary Teacher Manual

1. Isaiah describes our day

2. Isaiah prophesies of the consequences that will come from disobeying the Lord

3. Isaiah prophesies of events in the last days

4. Isaiah prophesies of woes and judgments that will come upon the house of Israel

Joseph Smith said: "all things pertaining to [our] dispensation should be conducted precisely in accordance with the preceding dispensations...God set the temple ordinances to be the same forever and ever and set Adam to watch over them, to reveal them from heaven to man, or to send angels to reveal them." (Joseph Smith, History of the Church 4:208.)

"For I am the Lord, I change not" (3 Nephi 24: 6)

469: THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW YEAR: 2019

Twelve diehard people with soaring birds overhead hiked in frigid temperatures and gusty winds to welcome in the New Year. The view of the sunrise from a peak on an island did not disappoint.