Re: Bo-Ku, Character of lenses...

[T3D William Carter <wc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

LeRoy DDD Barco writes:

>I'm dealing with the question of whether subject motion blur 
>is preferable to out of focus areas... 
<snip>
>.. has anyone seriously experimented with out-of-focus 3D?

"Self similarity" is my take on the key to stereo recognition. If the brain
can recognize an object as being the same object from the input of your two
eyes, it will recognize it's position in depth. 

With SL3D, you'll get a progressively recognizable projection of the
aperture the further you get from the plane of focus. Eventually you reach a
point where this projection looks enough like the physical aperture that the
brain looses the depth cue.

With n-lens systems, self similarity is more often in the form of edge
boundary recognition. Stereo resolution can be maintained by color, contrast
or other edge boundary cues.

Motion has no effect on SL3D stills. 

BTW:
I have put up a web page on SL3D at http://www.creative.net/~wc
It is not ready for general viewing; low resolution scans, Depth Charge
doesn't work, I haven't spell checked it yet... But, since you're more
Admiral than General, you may be interested in overlooking its flaws.


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