Re: 1-i-3d

[P3D Jim Crowell <crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 8:13 PM 9/24/96, P3D Michael Kaplan wrote:
>>Sure, motion parallax gives strong depth sensations, but it is distinct
>from the sensations created by binocular parallax, which permits static
>viewing of a scene.
>
>/From the experiments I've done rotating a lenticular image in front of
>one eye, I don't believe it is distinct - except for the seeing
>"hardware." The depth effect of viewing the rotated lenticular image with
>one eye is the same as viewing the static lenticular image with two eyes.
>

I suspect you're probably right, & that there are a number of different
"front ends" that calculate depth maps based on different cues (disparity,
motion parallax, etc.) & that at some point these estimates are combined
into a single depth percept.  It may be that the sensation of depth from
stereo differs in degree rather than in kind from the sensations you get
from motion parallax or even from monocular depth cues.

-Jim C.

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Jim Crowell
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Caltech
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