offworld
― Manitobiloba (Kim), Monday, 30 December 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
The f-stop aperture of cameras was known as an iris decades before sci-fi got hold of the term.https://tubularinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/f-stop-scale.gif
― The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool (Sanpaku), Monday, 30 December 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
"as a verb"
― mark s, Monday, 30 December 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
https://img.apmcdn.org/fab975fb18fd043b3007cd9d7eb8a357e712cf50/uncropped/27c825-20110402-bob-dylan-1975.jpgIris, oh, Iris, you’re a mystical child
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
the element in a camera is anyway transferred from the anatomical region that surrounds the pupil in the eye, so-called (since 1525 via SOED) bcz it is rainbow coloured, iris being the greek goddess of the rainbow -- and "irised" did actually pre-exist (acc.SOED, i've never spotted it) as a poetic verb meaning "exhibited the characteristics of a rainbow"
so there's a quadruple meaning transference, which is fun: from name-of-a-god to colour quality to mechanism (purposive-muscular) to mechanism (purposive-mechanical) to mechanism (similar mechanism different purpose)
― mark s, Monday, 30 December 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
El show de Iris Chacon to thread!
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
lidar
― mookieproof, Monday, 30 December 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
there's a lot of lidar talk in 1491! which, okay, does read a bit like science fiction in places
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link