P3D Re: PHOTO-3D digest 3223

[Ronald Beck <ronald-beck@xxxxxx>]

> >I just found this sight mentioned in the local paper:
> >http://www.panopticvision.com/
> >
> >They have devoloped a 360 degree panoramic digital camera which also
> >seems to have stereo capabilities. I don't seem to be able to down load
> >the analglyph image. The analglyph thumbnail is in stereo though. It
> >uses "Live Picture" whatever that is. I can see the spherical image
> >which uses "Live Picture Java Viewer". The camera doesn't seem to have a
> >method of using two lenses. Any ideas how this would work?
> 
> The web site is very thin, and has almost no information on it.  They say
> the camera has "left and right" settings for stereo, but not a peep more.
> Sounds like a slidbar arrangement. I'm guessing they get stereo by taking
> two separate panoramas, which would obviously only work for still-lifes.

I was walking down the hall to a meeting and was thinking about the
above camera.  Consider this thought for a moment and comment on the
feasability.  Since this is a digital camera, the "picture" is coming in
via some sort of pixelated input device (like a CCD).  Now, if you break
that image input into columns from left to right, you could concievably
start the left image file at column 1 of the CCD and scan through to the
end AND at the same time create a second right image file starting at,
for example, column 30 of the CCD.  Both files would be created at the
same time with just a bit of offset.  And, as the camera pans the
scene,  it keeps recording this offset.  Wouldn't this be similar to a
QDOS lens?  If you had a CCD of 100 columns, Columns 1-70 for left image
and columns 30-100 for the right image?

Maybe single lens digital stereo photography is a possibility after all!

Ron


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