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T3D Re: confused (again)


  • From: "William J. Carter, Ph.D." <wc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: T3D Re: confused (again)
  • Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 06:50:17 -0700

At 09:09 PM 10/6/98 -0600, Bob Maxey wrote:

>.. Any image, regardless of what camera is used to make it, is
>subject to Keystone effects. 
Keystoning results from "toeing in". In stereo pairs, it happens whenever
one image plane is at some angle to the other image plane.

>... fact, given everything being equal, I can take photographs of all types of
>subjects and you will be hard pressed to tell which were made with a stereo
>camera or a camera on a slide bar.
I'm sure that's true, Bob.

>... I say again,
>what you are doing with a stereo camera is EXACTLY the same thing you do
>with a single lens and a slide bar. No difference; the stereo camera is
>simply more convenient.
Ah ha! Okay! My little light just came on! We *are* talking about two
different things.
I'm talking about a system that uses the circles of confusion to convey
depth information. 


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