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31 Jul 2024 04:23:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Stereoscopic camera  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 28 Oct 2007 20:05:05
Message: <472531c1$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Jellby <me### [at] privacynet> wrote:
>> It may be clearer if you look at this diagram:
> 
>> http://local.wasp.uwa.edu.au/~pbourke/projection/stereorender/raystereo2.gif
> 
>> The two "eyes" are looking at two different points, which means their
>> respective fields of view are not exactly the same, but they overlap in
>> some region, and it is there where the stereoscopic vision works. The image
>> you pointed at first is somehow already "cropped" to this overlapping field
>> (the red line in the second image).
> 
>   So the situation is modelled so that the eyes are assumed to be looking
> at infinity?

No. Check one of the better books on virtual reality systems, they usually
have a good and comprehensive explanation of what is going on there.

	Thorsten


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