Re: Sow's ear photogrammetry & $46 million dollars

[P3D Clifford J. Mugnier <CJMCE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: P3D P3D Larry Berlin  <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Multiple recipients of list <photo-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, 06 October, 1997 7:42 PM
Subject: RE: 3D movies from a sow's ear


>Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997
>From: P3D Bob MAXIE  writes:
>............................
>If you hang your movie camera out of a car
>window and shoot some footage of a passing
>scene, you are capturing left and right pairs
>because the image is constantly shifting. So,
>true stereo can exist in this situation. Does
>anyone disagree with this?
>
>After all, one frame captures an image and
>several frames later, a different perspective is
>also captured as well.
>
>Just a thought, and I welcome comments on
>this.

*****  It works great. Highly recommended if you have a video camera and a
Snappy or equivalent to digitize the results.

Years ago, fifteen to be precise, the owner of Popeye's Fried Chicken, Mr.
Al Copelin,accidentally killed another racing boat driver during a race in
Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans, La.  I was retained some years later to do
a forensic photogrammetric analysis of all imagery taken during the
aforesaid race.

One of the imagery sources I discovered was a previously-considered
"worthless" videotape of the race in which the camera operator (in a
helicopter) allowed the video camera to record scenery as the chopper flew
around the race scene in a "pan" mode.  I froze individual overlapping
frames, photographed them from a CRT (this was before they had "frame
grabbers", snappys (r) , and the like), and mounted the overlapping photos
in a stereoplotter.  I made a variety of maps, etc. and to make a long story
short, proved that Mr. Copelin was not at fault for the other man's death.
Case closed, and $46,000,000 law suit dismissed.

How's that for results from a sow's ear?

Cliff Mugnier



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