P3D Re: A suggestion for Santa

[Vincent Chan <v7chan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you could rig up that model plane to take a series of photographs, you
could get a bunch of 3-D arial photographs, much like they take for mapping
(and spying).

Vincent.


>If anyone's stumped for 3D gift ideas here's an item I spotted in the
>Hammacher Schlemmer catalog - a glow engine powered model airplane designed
>to fly by itself while a radio transmitter is used to snap a single
>photograph with a disposable camera installed in the plane's fuselage.  I'm
>sure with a little bit of carving a stereo camera could be squeezed in
>there.