Random question for you guys.

I was wondering if you knew of any software or techniques to create
geometry from stereo photography?

Say I had this camera
http://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/ag-3da1.asp

I should theoretically be able to use the stereo images in tandem to
generate some sort of geometry from the footage I'm just not sure what is
out there.

For example in an application sense if I wanted to have a guy on
greenscreen dancing around that I later wanted to use as a source to
generate a fluid system and I went the traditional route I would have to
shoot the guy dancing and then hire an animator to animate generic
character geometry to match the movements. (run on sentence I know :) )
This would get me the geo that I would need to emit my fluid.
It would be much quicker though if I were able to shoot this dancing guy
with my stereo camera and then utilize the stereo offset information to
generate some sort of cheap geometry (granted from just one perspective but
for this purpose it would work for what I am trying to do.

Any knowledge you have would be helpful. I did come across this

http://research.stephense.com/papers/ijics08.pdf

Which tells me the military is doing it, but who knows how long until this
sort of thing might be come available to the business community.
Any information you have would be helpful.

Thanks,

Chris LeDoux
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