Re: Ain't talking?

[T3D john bercovitz <bercov@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> I interpreted this to mean that he tilted the flattie in the
>> scanner: one direction to get a left view and the other 
>> direction to get a right view.  But I may be way off base here.  
>> Only Michael can tell and he ain't talkin'.  8-)

> Well, that's cuz I've been trying to get Stereoscopy out not so 
> late!  Setting algebra equations takes a very long time and plus 
> I think there's an error...

Well just don't tell anyone _who_ proof read that manuscript and 
was supposed to have found those errors that you've found, OK?  
Thanks.  Much appreciated.  8-)

> Naw, what my roommate and lifelong professional photographer 
> suggested to do, was scan a flattie, make two copies of it 
> (identical in every way) then rotate the image in space, as for 
> example about 2 degrees on the Y axis.  What would happen is, as 
> has been discussed, some keystoning.  Several bitmap editors 
> have the ability to seem to rotate an image on the Y axis, but 
> that is no different than a picture pasted to a plane, and then 
> the plane itself rotated.

Oops!  So I did misinterpret it - the manipulation is being done 
in the computer.  Well, as a first approximation, I would claim 
this is similar to the process I described but it does look like 
Larry Berlin read your note better than I did.  *-)

John B


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