[photo-3d] Re: hyper-3d viewer I got to use

["Bruce Springsteen" <bsspringsteen@xxxxxxxxx>]

marble <marble@xxxx> wrote:
> http://www.halcyon.com/marble/Dante_s/Telestereoscope-02.jpg
> 
> Other pictures in the same directory are not related to this at
> all. This is the only one.
> 
> the creator's webpage:  www.eyestilts.com
> 
> Looking through this thing was great.  it swiveled 360 degrees too.

Not sure who "marble" is, but thanks for the post - this is a fun
recreation of an old idea, and the web page is a good read on
the history of the project.  I love the contest-winning name "Eye
Stilts"!

Seems to me that you could affix a stereo camera (or two singles) to
this contraption and, with its rotation capability, take hyperstereo
360-degree panoramics.  A jumbo rotating hyper-splitter.

One wonders, has anyone ever made a variable-base image-splitter
by putting _pivoting_ periscopes of this type on a camera, changing
the angle of the "v" arms to taste?  I have a vague recollection of
this.

Bruce