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 <Ich### [at] webde> wrote:
> And I couldn't resist to trace Christoph Hormann's
> BALCONY.pov in 3D.

  By the way, I think that it could be a good idea to render it with the
proper aspect ratio (I think there's a comment about this at the beginning
of the file in question).

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

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It looks wonderful.
Thank you Ichthyostega!


"Ichthyostega" <Ich### [at] webde> wrote in message
news:web.3e631ed5ef61113d4066d4e0@news.povray.org...
> 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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Warp wrote:
>> Christoph Hormann's BALCONY.pov in 3D.
>
>  By the way, I think that it could be a good idea to render it with the
>proper aspect ratio (I think there's a comment about this at the beginning
>of the file in question).
>

I didn't change anything with the camera definition besides adding
stereo parameters.

It rather seems that I made a mistake afterwards while resizing
and converting the rendered Image. I'll correct this!

You should note though, that for distant objects (e.g. the cliffs at the
left side of "balcony") there allways will be some noticable difference
in horizontal direction, when compared with a mono image with the same
camera parameters. This is because the right eye can "look a bit round
the corner" at the left image border and vice versa.

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Ichthyostega <Ich### [at] webde> wrote:
> I didn't change anything with the camera definition besides adding
> stereo parameters.

  And you certainly shouldn't. What I meant with my comment was that
you should have rendered with a *resolution* which matches the aspect
ratio of the image (the comments at the beginning of the file give some
example resolutions, IIRC).

-- 
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -

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Images with correct aspect ratio are now online.
Warp, thank you for pointing this error out!

Hermann

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