Jim Gasperini’s 3D Penis
Many inventions seem obvious once you’ve seen them. Like the wheel, or the hang glider, or the Post-It note. But it takes a special kind of someone to see those things before they exist, and bring them forth to obviousness.
Someone like Jim Gasperini, who has hit upon a really neat trick involving using an animated GIF to toggle back and forth between two slightly displaced photographs, providing a convincing (if somewhat jittery) illusion of three dimensions: Time for space. And given the rarity of such men, who can fault Gasperini for choosing to give pride of place on his page to a nude image of his three-dimensional self. Like Da Vinci with his Vitruvian Man, Gasperini makes his Johnson the proud, still, center around which the universe revolves: Siegfried salutes the sun.
May 29th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
You are right on target. Jim Gaperini has invented a completely new and original form of 3D image with photogaphs and animated .GIF. Some time ago, making these images with 3D graphics, I dubbed this new type of 3D image after him, and call it “The Gasperini Wiggle”. He himself uses “wiggle” to describe the mode, but is apparently too modest to affix his name to his invention.
I have been calling it “The Gasperini Wiggle” in his honor for some years.
Let’s all all do it for him and in honor of his originality.
With other types of 3D I have made a number of “Gasperini Wiggles” using the virtual “camera” in 3D graphics programs as an equivalent of his 3D camera.
A recent one can be found here–a bit softer than Gasperini’s photographic verson, but still clearly 3D and with his wiggle:
http://burbankstomato.blogspot.com/
It appears with a poem on Sara Teasdale.
Eugene Costa