Re: Furthest Stereo?

[P3D Sid Herbage <sid@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:41 AM 3/17/97 -0600, you wrote:
>While watching comet Hale-Bopp this weekend I got to thinking, what is the
>furthest stereo distance yet captured?

I'm not sure whether you would count this but there is a computer program
that's been around for a while called "Deep Space 3D" which allows you
to print star fields in 3D (separate left/right images). Naturally these are
hyperstereos and you can adjust the eye separation before printing.

In fact, the latest version(s) of the program seem to have backed off
somewhat on the 3D aspect. In fact I believe the latest version is
simply called "Deep Space". It was probably best around version 3 or 4
I think. This would let you do 8.5 x 11 prints (with postscript output if you
wanted) for which you could build a simple mirror stereoscope ... they
even sold a kit of parts for such a stereoscope at one time. The prints
were "negative" i.e. black stars on a white background.

My favorite method though was to copy the prints onto 35mm lith
film (thus producing a positive image) and mount the resulting frames
as 35mm transparencies for viewing in a regular full-frame viewer.
Of course, they could also be mounted in Realist or 7P mounts.

Incidentally, the Deep Space program also allows you to plot (3D) comet
tracks in the starfields.
... Sid (sid@xxxxxxxxxx)


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