P3D Re: MetaFlash

["Kersenbrock, Michael" <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry Berlin wrote:
> learned to harness the triangulation inherent in stereo pairs (though
> apparently he only uses one eye ;-) combined with texturing 3D objects
> based on details of structure extracted from the photos. I assume that
> the flash unit helps insure usable structure data. There was NO mention
> of anything stereoscopic about this product. There may be the option of
> writing new software to harness this technology to provide stereo
> images.

That's what I had in mind.  They did say it took two pictures (in
ZDTV's report from what probably was the PMA show early this week
in Vegas).  I wasn't so interested in the current 2D visual output 
application, I'm intrigued by having commercial relatively low 
cost stereo digital camera hardware available and made in quantity 
-- even if the current software backend doesn't output things the way 
I'd like.  "That's only software". :-)

Perhaps it's taking two flash photos with the flash coming from
two places, then software processing the differences from there?
If so, could a good stereo pair be synthesized from that?

Mike K.

P.S. - Thanks Larry for the URL reference. !


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