Re: Rainbows in 3D?

[P3D Peter Davis <pfd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> When I first read of the suggestion that rainbows would look cool in 
> hyperstereo I thought, wait a minute, doesn't every POV provide a 
> "different" rainbow one which ids a reflection/refraction of the sun-
> light behind the viewer?  Since rainbows don't really exist in one 
> spot there's no way you could get a hyper of one.
> 
> Then I thought, but what -would- it look like?  The rainbows would seem 
> to occupy different positions relative to fixed f.g. and b.g. objects.
> I'm afraid my education limits me at this point.  Perhaps someone else 
> could offer an idea of which "direction" the rainbow would seem to go 
> between left to right views and what degree of apparent movement one 
> might expect?  Maybe rainbow hypers are possible after all.

Well, when you see a rainbow, other people generally see it as being
in the same place, so left/right views might capture it as though it
were an object.  I have Realist shots of rainbows in fountains, but no
hyperstereo shots.  The fountain ones look pretty cool.

-pd


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