Re: Flagpoles

[T3D John Bercovitz <bercov@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin Jones writes:
> If I understand this scenario correctly (which isn't necessarily that safe 
> an assumption), it wouldn't produce a stereo pair. By rotating the camera 
> around the pole, you'd just get a similar picture of the pole from two 
> different directions. The rotation would eliminate the displacement that 
> triggers depth perception, wouldn't it?

Yes, that was the gist of the article.  Are you in ISU?  It's cheap and good 
and you get to read articles from Michael Gordon.  (Hi Michael)

Would care to go on to the next step with this model?  Camera on a slide bar.  
Use rise to get the whole pole in.  View from the perspective point.  You
have two shots of the flagpole.  The upper end of the pole is obviously
farther away than the lower end but how about the separation from the stars?

John B


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