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- From: hstroyan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Howard Stroyan)
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:20:20 GMT
- Subject: Re: Changing controlling stereo real estate (possible?)
- Message-ID: <21580003@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- In comp.graphics.visualization, checker@acf5.NYU.EDU (checker) writes:
-
- > Anyway, to address the question at hand: I'm no X windows expert, so I'm
- > not sure how you'd pull this off, but the solution is pretty obvious;
- > draw the desktop at half the vertical resolution to both the top and
- > bottom of the screen. This way when the frame-rate doubler is running
- > you'll see the same desktop with both eyes. You'd draw all 2d objects
- > identically to the top and bottom, and all 3d objects from different
- > viewpoints, as usual.
-
- This is correct, but you did overlook one more detail.
- Since each half frame (now a complete left or right frame) is stretched
- to cover the entire screen, a 2:1 aspect ratio is introduced for each
- pixel. If you just cut the X servers screen res to say 1280x512 and
- then replicate the non-stereo pixels in the upper and lower framebuffer
- the image will be distorted. Sort of like a vistavision movie title on
- TV screen. To adjust for this, the simplest thing to do is to cut the
- effective X server resolution to 640x512 and replicate the pixels by 2
- in the horizontal dimension. This approach was taken by E&S in their
- Stereo in a window solution.
-
- An alternate approach is to not half the effective frame resolution but to
- instead half the effective video bandwidth. That is, have left and right
- framebuffer of full resolution (say 1280x1024) and display them in
- alternation (either interlaced or complete frames). This would produce
- an effective frame rate of 30 fps on a typical 60Hz display. The
- benefit of this approach is that a high screen res and a 1:1 aspect ratio
- are maintained. The disadvantage is ... well it reminds me of an other
- old movie "My Friend Flicker" :-). I remember seening this setup on
- mac in the 89' SIGGRAPH Textronics booth. I did have stereo_in_a_window
- but it strobed terribly.
- --
- Howard Stroyan
- Hewlett-Packard hstroyan@fc.hp.com
- User Interface Technology Division
-