P3D stereography of WHOLE PLANETS!

[boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Boris Starosta)]

Duncan Waldron wrote, in comment on Dan Shelley's Jupiter stereograph:

>Stereo views of the moon and planets are just the bees knees, IMO. With
>all due respect to Boris, and other masters of the table-top genre,
>astronomical stuff (eg whole planets, not just the recent Mars lander
>pics) is really quite special. When I eventaully get a web site up, I

Surely you've seen my stereo view _Atlas Industrial Robot_, which contains
(at least in part) a view of our globe.
(Look at starosta.com/3dshowcase/ihex2.html).

But not even the astronauts orbiting in space get anything other than a
"flat" view of our spherical earth.  Any stereography of planets, using
hyper baselines (very hyper indeed!), or rotation of the subject, will not
be much less realistic than a computer generated stereo of same.  With all
due respect to Dan's efforts, they are fun to look at, but I find not very
spatially/volumetrically interesting.

Yours,




Boris Starosta

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