Peter O'Byrne wrote: >Thanks for the help Steve, Colin & Keith. Quicktime is now running and >iTunes is nowhere to be seen. Chong-Yee, your photos are interesting, >and certainly easier on the eye than the system in use 25 years ago, >which required matched right & left slides to be viewed >simultaneously.
Hi, Peter, It's one of a number of ways of depicting objects in 3D. The advantage is no glasses and full colour. The image is also not static as it is with traditional stereoscopic dual-colour images - you get to see around the sides and the back of the object. The disadvantage is that you need a computer - you can't print VR objects in a book! >Is there anyway of extending the view so we can see from above ? Yes, absolutely. See the medium size and large size images of bird specimens at http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/zma3d/index.html. You can even do a full all-angles view, which can be very impressive Apple makes good use of these to show off their iPods at http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/gallery/qtvr.html for example (sorry, we seem to always come back to iTunes!). The problem is that you need a setup that allows the object to be rotated and photographed from above for such "multi-row" objects. The rigs can be very expensive, in the thousands of dollars to tens of thousands. I'm using a relatively low cost setup for my single-row objects comprising a webcam and a turntable. I too would love to see up-down views of the orchids. Now, if I won the lottery...wait, I need to start buying lottery tickets first! Regards, Chong-Yee _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
