Re: terminology

[P3D Jim Crowell <crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:51 PM -0800 2/17/97, P3D Dr. George A. Themelis wrote:
>>The single camera, when used with a slidebar or even used "cha-cha"
>>style also is a stereo camera because it takes stereo photographs.
>
>It is getting complicated, isn't it? ;)  Every camera has the potential to
>take stereo pictures but does that make it a stereo camera?  How about a
>"real" stereo camera?
>

I don't think much of that choice of terminology; the modifier "stereo"
becomes essentially meaningless.

I'd say a stereo camera is one that takes two (or more) shots of the same
scene from different viewpoints simultaneously.

-Jim C.

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Jim Crowell
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