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I was watching NFL football last Sunday and was wondering
why (American) football players wear grease paint under there eyes but other athletes don't. Does the grease paint really reduce glare, or is it, at some level, more like war paint? Would grease paint make my eyes more comfortable in snow and sun glare conditions? Would war paint help me to ski faster? I was also wondering about full contact ski racing, but I don't want to get too far off topic here. The Inuit of centuries past, before the invention on dark lenses, wore snow goggles that had a series of one or more horizontal slits. Northern Europeans and Asians probably had something similar. I'd like to try something like that for skiing. No worries about fogging, plus you'd look a little scary. Does anyone know about the type of eye shades I'm talking about? A Google image search on "Inuit snow goggles" (*) turns up some examples of the one slit variety. Multiple slits would probably work better for skiing... (?) * see http://images.google.com/images?q=Inuit+snow+goggles |
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I just wear sunglasses. Simpler, readily available and they work pretty well
plus they are easily available on ebay - cheap.... cheers Bob "Bob Larson" schrieb im Newsbeitrag om... I was watching NFL football last Sunday and was wondering why (American) football players wear grease paint under there eyes but other athletes don't. Does the grease paint really reduce glare, or is it, at some level, more like war paint? Would grease paint make my eyes more comfortable in snow and sun glare conditions? Would war paint help me to ski faster? I was also wondering about full contact ski racing, but I don't want to get too far off topic here. The Inuit of centuries past, before the invention on dark lenses, wore snow goggles that had a series of one or more horizontal slits. Northern Europeans and Asians probably had something similar. I'd like to try something like that for skiing. No worries about fogging, plus you'd look a little scary. Does anyone know about the type of eye shades I'm talking about? A Google image search on "Inuit snow goggles" (*) turns up some examples of the one slit variety. Multiple slits would probably work better for skiing... (?) * see http://images.google.com/images?q=Inuit+snow+goggles |
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On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Bob Larson wrote: I was watching NFL football last Sunday and was wondering why (American) football players wear grease paint under there eyes but other athletes don't. Does the grease paint really reduce glare, or is it, at some level, more like war paint? Would grease paint make my eyes more comfortable in snow and sun glare conditions? Would war paint help me to ski faster? One year the whole Swedish ski-orienteering team turned up at the starting line for world championships with grease paint beneath their eyes. It was an interesting idea but I never saw anyone else try it, nor did I hear afterwards if it helped them. In cross-country the easier thing to do is to just wear sunglasses. Unfortunately sunglasses can cause problems in ski-O due to the tinting changing the appearence of the colors on the orienteering map. This would not seem like something that should cause problems, but I tried racing a few times with sunglasses on sunny days and I always made at least one navigation error that was directly due to mistaken color perception when reading the map. I eventually made myself promise to never race ski-O with sunglasses again. I toyed briefly with the thought of trying the grease paint, but I had no idea what exactly it was or where it could be purchased and never bothered to find out. :-) -Mitch |
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Unfortunately sunglasses can cause problems in ski-O due to the tinting changing the appearence of the colors on the orienteering map. This would not seem like something that should cause problems, but I tried racing a few times with sunglasses on sunny days and I always made at least one navigation error that was directly due to mistaken color perception when reading the map. I eventually made myself promise to never race ski-O with sunglasses again. -Mitch Try neutral grey. In film making, NG gels are used specifically to NOT shift the color. I think any lens that really appears to be grey would work. Perceptions might vary, bring your maps along to check (and make sure you try them out in daylight (5000K black body) instead of the store's greenish flourecents or purplish halogens . . . Jim |
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