>> I guess I was hoping for a system that would take a pair of photos and 
>> reproduce the blades of the grass, or the bumpmap of the grain in the 
>> wood, or the individual sugar grains in a sugar jar, or similar. You 
>> know, like the human eye can.
> 
> That's impossible from two photos, you may *think* your eyes can do this 
> perfectly, but a lot of it is just your brain making stuff up based on 
> what it is expecting to be there.

Wouldn't it depend on the resolution of the images and the size of the 
objects in question?

You can't make out sand grains on the brach from 4 miles out to sea, but 
I'm damned well sure you can when you're laying in the sand reading a 
book. :-P

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