finally, after a long delay caused by much work to be done for other
projects, I am now ready to announce the next release of my patch

_____________
StereoPOV 0.2
Stereoscopic Raytracing with POV-Ray

 This patch enables some of the camera types built into POV-Ray 3.5 to
 generate  real 3D output by generating stereoscopic pairs of images.
 The key feature of this patch is the ability to render the two halfimages
 in a single raytracing pass, whilst sharing the results of lighting,
 texture, photon and radiosity calculations.
 Five built in camera types are "stereoscopically enabeled":
 perspective, orthogonal, fisheye, cylindrical and spherical wideangle,
 the latter beeing a new addition specifically designed to create
 full range stereoscopic images of fisheye type.

NEW: - Now based on POV 3.5 sources,
     - extended the "StereoCache" datastructure to support
       light groups and photon data
     - new stereo camera setup features
     - heuristic to guess stereoscopic base (similar to the so called
       "1:30 rule")
     - many bugfixes, improved AntiAlias quality.

Sample images, documentation, source and
a windows executable is available at

http://stereopov.ichthyostega.de/


PS: I added more sample images to the webpage:
Experiments with splines, radiosity and media.
A "Tomtree". And of course an Iso in real 3D.
And I couldn't resist to trace Christoph Hormann's
BALCONY.pov in 3D.

see:
http://stereopov.ichthyostega.de/images.html


"Ichthyostega"
(Hermann Vosseler)

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Ichthyostega wrote:
> 
> finally, after a long delay caused by much work to be done for other
> projects, I am now ready to announce the next release of my patch

First of all please read the cross-posting guidelines in p.a.f-a-q.

> _____________
> StereoPOV 0.2
> Stereoscopic Raytracing with POV-Ray
> 

Looks interesting, the lack of vista buffer will lead to a significant
slowdown in a lot of scenes though.

> [...]
> And I couldn't resist to trace Christoph Hormann's
> BALCONY.pov in 3D.

You can do so but *please* render it with correct aspect ratio then!

Christoph

-- 
POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Sim-POV,
HCR-Edit and more: http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/
Last updated 28 Feb. 2003 _____./\/^>_*_<^\/\.______

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Christoph Hormann wrote:
>
>Ichthyostega wrote:
>>
>> finally, after a long delay caused by much work to be done for other
>> projects, I am now ready to announce the next release of my patch
>
>First of all please read the cross-posting guidelines in p.a.f-a-q.
At the moment, I can only use the web interface, because I am
behind a firewall (and have no internet at home at the moment).
I found no possibility to set the folluwup-to header. My apologies!


>
>Looks interesting, the lack of vista buffer will lead to a significant
>slowdown in a lot of scenes though.

Problem is, I use a feature often refered to as "natural stereoscopic
window". For this, the direction-vector is no longer perpendicular to
the up and right vector. (converving optical axes)
Do you see any chances to get vista buffer working in spite of this?

For the non-standard cameras, esp. panoramic and "spherical", which
are rather important for me, I can't use vista buffer anyway.


>
>> [...]
>> And I couldn't resist to trace Christoph Hormann's
>> BALCONY.pov in 3D.
>
>You can do so but *please* render it with correct aspect ratio then!

Did I? If so - sorry!
I'll recheck this, when I am at home and make a new render.

Btw: I recently took stereo slides from the computer monitor.
Your scene looks quite impressive when viewed 3D on a 2m slide
projection screen!


Hermann

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I think I like it, but i'm not sure yet because i could not view the images,
so:

Where can i find a pair of red/blue glasses?

I tried to make them, but i could not even look trough them |-(.


JWV
"Ichthyostega" <Ich### [at] webde> wrote in message
news:web.3e6330636be794dfd4066d4e0@news.povray.org...
> Christoph Hormann wrote:
> >
> >Ichthyostega wrote:
> >>
> >> finally, after a long delay caused by much work to be done for other
> >> projects, I am now ready to announce the next release of my patch
> >
> >First of all please read the cross-posting guidelines in p.a.f-a-q.
> At the moment, I can only use the web interface, because I am
> behind a firewall (and have no internet at home at the moment).
> I found no possibility to set the folluwup-to header. My apologies!
>
>
> >
> >Looks interesting, the lack of vista buffer will lead to a significant
> >slowdown in a lot of scenes though.
>
> Problem is, I use a feature often refered to as "natural stereoscopic
> window". For this, the direction-vector is no longer perpendicular to
> the up and right vector. (converving optical axes)
> Do you see any chances to get vista buffer working in spite of this?
>
> For the non-standard cameras, esp. panoramic and "spherical", which
> are rather important for me, I can't use vista buffer anyway.
>
>
> >
> >> [...]
> >> And I couldn't resist to trace Christoph Hormann's
> >> BALCONY.pov in 3D.
> >
> >You can do so but *please* render it with correct aspect ratio then!
>
> Did I? If so - sorry!
> I'll recheck this, when I am at home and make a new render.
>
> Btw: I recently took stereo slides from the computer monitor.
> Your scene looks quite impressive when viewed 3D on a 2m slide
> projection screen!
>
>
> Hermann
>
>

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JWV wrote:

> Where can i find a pair of red/blue glasses?

http://www.stereoscopy.com/reel3d/anaglyph-glasses.html

-- 
Ken Tyler

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You can get a free pair (just send them a self-addressed
and stamped envelope).

http://www.rainbowsymphony.com/freestuff.html

However, anaglyph is not the best way to view stereoscopy.
Check into stereoscope lenses, you can also learn to
"freeview" stereo images.

Harolddd

"JWV" <jwv|at|planet.nl> wrote in message news:3ec738e9@news.povray.org...
> I think I like it, but i'm not sure yet because i could not view the
images,
> so:
>
> Where can i find a pair of red/blue glasses?
>
> I tried to make them, but i could not even look trough them |-(.
>
>
> JWV
> "Ichthyostega" <Ich### [at] webde> wrote in message
> news:web.3e6330636be794dfd4066d4e0@news.povray.org...
> > Christoph Hormann wrote:
> > >
> > >Ichthyostega wrote:
> > >>
> > >> finally, after a long delay caused by much work to be done for other
> > >> projects, I am now ready to announce the next release of my patch
> > >
> > >First of all please read the cross-posting guidelines in p.a.f-a-q.
> > At the moment, I can only use the web interface, because I am
> > behind a firewall (and have no internet at home at the moment).
> > I found no possibility to set the folluwup-to header. My apologies!
> >
> >
> > >
> > >Looks interesting, the lack of vista buffer will lead to a significant
> > >slowdown in a lot of scenes though.
> >
> > Problem is, I use a feature often refered to as "natural stereoscopic
> > window". For this, the direction-vector is no longer perpendicular to
> > the up and right vector. (converving optical axes)
> > Do you see any chances to get vista buffer working in spite of this?
> >
> > For the non-standard cameras, esp. panoramic and "spherical", which
> > are rather important for me, I can't use vista buffer anyway.
> >
> >
> > >
> > >> [...]
> > >> And I couldn't resist to trace Christoph Hormann's
> > >> BALCONY.pov in 3D.
> > >
> > >You can do so but *please* render it with correct aspect ratio then!
> >
> > Did I? If so - sorry!
> > I'll recheck this, when I am at home and make a new render.
> >
> > Btw: I recently took stereo slides from the computer monitor.
> > Your scene looks quite impressive when viewed 3D on a 2m slide
> > projection screen!
> >
> >
> > Hermann
> >
> >
>
>

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