P3D panopticvision

[Tom Deering <tmd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/2/99, Ronald Beck wrote:
>> >I just found this sight mentioned in the local paper:
>> >http://www.panopticvision.com/

>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!


Sure, if you don't mind a stereo separation of a quarter inch.  CCDs are
not very big.



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