How to Read Mail Using the AIM Mail Preview Pane
Tuesday November 25, 2008
Two eyes make two images, right? We have two eyes, but we don't see two images of everything. How come?
If two objects are sufficiently close and similar in the two images (laid on top of each other), we merge them, sometimes creatively. What if the objects are farther apart (outside the relatively small Panum's area — after Peter Ludvig Panum, who discovered it around 1858) or near each other, but different in unexpected ways?
Typically, we discard the least fitting aspect. But we might also still try to merge them, or switch from one aspect to another in funny ways — retinal or binocular rivalry. For the most part, it all works out fine, though. We see what we want to see and automatically discard what's not fitting right now:
›› Open and read emails in AIM Mail with the message list still visible.
If two objects are sufficiently close and similar in the two images (laid on top of each other), we merge them, sometimes creatively. What if the objects are farther apart (outside the relatively small Panum's area — after Peter Ludvig Panum, who discovered it around 1858) or near each other, but different in unexpected ways?
Typically, we discard the least fitting aspect. But we might also still try to merge them, or switch from one aspect to another in funny ways — retinal or binocular rivalry. For the most part, it all works out fine, though. We see what we want to see and automatically discard what's not fitting right now:
›› Open and read emails in AIM Mail with the message list still visible.
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