P3D Stereoscope, JPS format, Burning Man 3D

["Harold Baize" <baize@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Asking for feedback from this group is always a good 
idea. Thanks to feedback from Allan Woods I looked 
further into using the JPS files. Many of you no 
doubt remember the thread on Photo-3d about the pros 
and cons of using Andreas Petersik's Java applet
"Stereoscope". It lets you use just one JPS file to 
present your stereo images in a variety of formats. 
Unfortunately Java is not as universally supported as 
Sun Microsystems would have liked. 

In earlier versions of my web pages I supported multiple 
stereo formats with multiple files. Now I've just about 
run out of web space so I converted to relying on 
Stereoscope. 

Allan wrote to say that he doesn't use DepthCharge or 
Stereoscope and felt that he couldn't see the images 
except in anaglyph. So I looked into the possibility of 
displaying JPS files as JPEG. I suppose some of you already 
knew this, as it turns out it isn't difficult to do. 
All you need to do is specify the file type in the HTML tag.
 
<IMG SRC="filename.jps" type="image/jpeg"> 

It works in Internet Explorer and Netscape.
So I'll be adding direct support for cross 
eyed viewing very soon. I'll have separate buttons 
for Stereoscope Applet, Cross eyed, Anaglyph, and 
DepthCharge. By using just two files, an anaglyph and 
a JPS, you can offer many ways of viewing stereo images.

Harold