P3D Your Greetings and My Maiden 3D Question

[Bruce Springsteen <bsspringsteen@xxxxxxxxx>]

For Charlie Hotchkiss:
Thanks for the welcome on P3D.  It was a masterpiece of Springsteen 
gags - and I've heard a lot!  You obviously know your "Boss" trivia. 
The whole story is I'm his third cousin, I was born in Red Bank, NJ,
USA, and we have never met.  And no I wasn't named after him - he was
seven years old at the time.  But I have been to Asbury Park as a boy.
That's the whole speech. (End of recording) 

During the time I was getting digests from that friend I alluded to, I
picked up a lot of great tips.  I even am somewhat familiar with the
regular cast of characters, so I have a pretty good idea what I've
gotten into.

For Chuck Field:
So maybe you and I can be chief defenders of anaglyph to the list, as
members 1 and 2 of the Suck-Up Zone.  One advantage of anaglyph I
really like is the virtually unlimited size of the images you can use.
Another is the ability to project with conventional slide projectors
and non-silvered screens.  As has been so often noted on the list -
when ANY process is done well, it's good.

For John Saddy:
Thanks for admitting you know me - I hadn't realized you had finally
joined the list.  Especially nice since I had to sit out your last VM
auction.  You're one of the fairest dealers on the planet.
 
So here is a question to justify putting all this on the list.  Has
anyone ever tried to take a stereo pair from 45 degrees above a lone
person on a blank background, convert that pair to an *anamorphic*
anaglyph on a flat sheet which, when viewed from a 45 degree angle at
a distance proportional to the original camera-to-subject distance,
yields an free-standing ("phantogram") portrait of the subject?  

Are there image manipulation programs which could create the correct
image distortion for the anamorphic view?  Can view cameras do this
kind of thing "on film"?  Am I nuts?  Am I throwing away a patentable
idea?

Have at me, folks. 

Bruce.
 
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