P3D Re: SD3D Bryce 2

[boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Boris Starosta)]

By the way, I am crossposting to P3D, also, because of my comments on
stereo animation and video...  That ought to confuse the moderators and
subscribers.  Let this be my vote (in an applied fashion) against
fracturing P3D.

Larry:

>****  Yes, I do remember the pixie. It was a really nice image. Did you
>import the pixie as a model or add it later after the scene was rendered?
>

I imported the photograph(s) into the scene, then rendered the scene.  Only
in this way can the photo interact with the scene (reflections, etc.).  It
did take a lot of tweaking and re-rendering to get the Pixie spatially
matched to the scene.

>ing programs. It's also capable of animation, however I wonder
>if it's possible to set up parallel action paths for the camera such that
>you can render two separate eye paths through the scene and end up with
>matching pairs in the animation?
>

I don't know about that yet, but I expect it to be quite difficult -
particularly if your "two lensed camera" will be moving in curved paths,
i.e. paths of different lengths.

My personal opinion/expectation of 3-D animation and video, so far, is that
it is not worth it.  As I continue in my work and discovery of the medium
of stereo photography, I am coming to believe that stereo is the ultimate
refinement of an image.  Ultimate, in the sense that it is the last
improvement that should be made.  I think stereo adds substantial value -
more value than added cost - only to those images that are already of the
highest quality and resolution.

When stereo is added to low quality images, like video or computer images,
the added value sometimes doesn't justify the cost (by cost I am referring
not just to the added expense of production or hardware, but also the
reduced comfort of having to wear goggles, or endure flicker, or other
drawbacks).  The stereo images that I present on my websites serve an
instructive purpose, but many will arguably look better to most people as
single full screen images.

In video especially, where resolution is already quite low, and motion
parallax already adds strong depth cues, adding stereo is really a waste, I
think.  Particularly because some of the stereo video processes I've seen
further degrade the resolution (vertical resolution is halved).

But none of this is to say that I will never experiment with stereo
animation...  When I do, I'll try to make the best of it.

Yours,

Boris



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