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(a) One temporal frame: a set of 8 images
(b) Anaglyph of images 3 and 4
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Fig. 5
Image synthesis of a jet engine
devices and these distortions. Those pieces of software currently handle scenes up
to 7 million polygons at interactive rate. Figure 5 shows an example of images of a
jet engine part shot as the software was tuned to achieve a perfect depth effect on an
autostereoscopic parallax display 57”
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(optimal viewing distance 4
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2m).
We have also provided existing 3D software with a new functionality of stereo-
vision: wrapping graphics stream for multiview rendering. For example, let us men-
tion Google Earth (cf. Figure 6) which could be transformed into a virtual tourism
application by means of stereo-vision. This way all the tools offered by this appli-
cation, like land use impact analysis or location-based data representation, will be
improved in their realism and relevance.
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The 3D content has been produced for autostereoscopic display. Obviously, it can only
be experimented with the chosen device and in no way upon 2D media such as paper or
conventional display. Nevertheless, anaglyph helps the reader to notice the depth effect on
such 2D media.
