An old "camera for film" set-up was two lenses taking half each of the same film frame. This gets over the need to synch the takes. The projector had a similar mirror (actually a beam splitter type lens I think) and projected through the colour/polarising filter for a glasses viewing solution. In RS it would be the easiest thing to place mirrors in the same way. Effectively two horizontal "periscopes". So here synch is not the issue. Splitting the single replay into different polarisations or shutter placements would then be needed of course.
Maybe an option is to split the single image data off-camera. The usual render (single) data set ... and with an offset and aimpoint known from which the machine can extrapolate the second eye view. N. ________________________________ From: Mark Heuymans <atha...@casema.nl> To: user-list@light.realsoft3d.com Sent: Mon, 8 February, 2010 10:23:17 AM Subject: Re: stereoscopic imagery Op 7-2-2010 20:19, Neil Cooke schreef: > >Two cents worth ... > > >Stereoscopic entertainment history shows it as a fad type of >thing. It comes along gets all hot and fired then fades to zero. Yes, like quadraphony. Maybe this time it will break through, hard to tell. But it will double render times and make post processing much more complicated. Cameras, both real and virtual are much more complicated because they need to replicate every movement of the human eyes. (nice project to set up in RS, also for mono renders!) > > >Only one of the seven or so ways the brain deciphers depth in a >view is dependent on the stereoscopic event ..... the fact that the left >view is 64mm offset from the right view .... and as Jen-Sebastien >points out, actual near and distant eye lens shift for focus is absent. >The other factors are intellectual ..... place in the field, overlap, >known and relative sizes, colour tone strengths, etc. Yes, but I once tried to play tennis with one eye shut - totally impossible! Sure, it doesn't add much to maybe 99% of all productions, it's worthwhile only for visual spectacles like Avatar and Coraline (great stop motion movie btw!). Nice and quick replies guys, I'm checking out the tips! Shutter glasses are maybe an option but I doubt if my LCD monitors are fast enough. I was just wondering if I could view RS stereo animations in stereo. I have two identical LCD monitors, maybe I can set up something with mirrors. Thanks, Mark H
