Re: Stereoscopic Panoramas

[P3D John Ohrt <johrt@xxxxxxx>]

P3D Gabriel Jacob wrote:

> Why not use Apple Quicktime VR, which stitches the images
> together for seamless pictures? The price has decreased quite a
> bit for the software. I would guess it should be possible to get a
> hard copy from it also. This could then be viewed with a up/down
> View-Magic viewer or as mentioned awhile back in anaglyph mode
> viewed on a computer. Similar to the Mars Pathfinder panorama.

Well, I don't touch hardware with proprietary operating systems be they
Apple or DEC.  But that's an aside:-)

Nevertheless, it could be doable if:

edge distortion is much less than one pixel, and

the camera is correctly and accurately rotated on a precision levelled
platform.

Otherwise you are about to learn a whole lot about distortion corrections
etc. that you never wanted to know.  :-)

However if I had such a camera, I would give it a shot.  At least the end
result using a crude stich and paste would be relatively painless and
quick.  Who knows, it might be good enough for many purposes.

My experience with other cameras suggests that you not hold your breath.

Good suggestion.

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John Ohrt * Toronto * ON * Canada






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