Slime,
Your absolutely right. The cameras should be kept parallel rather than
trying
to angle them to imitate convergence. That is why the 30:1 rule (which isn't
a
law mind you, but just a rule of thumb) is so useful.

Harold


<msk### [at] msncom> wrote in message news:387f120e@news.povray.org...
> Just imagine how far apart in your scene the human eyes would be, and for
the second picture translate the camera that much.  make
> each image look in a parallel direction - when people are looking at the
stereo image, the eye-crossing differences will be done by
> their own eyes; it shouldn't be done by the camera.  That's how I did my
image earlier, and it looks fine.
>
> - Slime
>
>
> Sigmund Kyrre Aas <as### [at] studntnuno> wrote in message
news:387E5F6F.350AD066@stud.ntnu.no...
> > Harold Baize wrote:
> > >
> > > Sigmund,
> > > Alright, I realize my last message didn't really answer the question-
why.
> > > Well, when we look at things in the distance (infinity) the line of
> > > sight of each eye is parallel. It is still pretty much parallel at
> > > 195cm. Given an average human eye separation of 6.5cm that works out
> > > to be 1:30. When we look at things closer than this our eyes converge
> >
> > ahhh ooohh It's coming to me .. gotta.. _think_... Nah. G'night everone!
> >
> > sig., still cuious about that ratio..
>
>

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