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- From: imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
- Newsgroups: alt.3d
- Subject: Re: Small question about RDS theory
- Message-ID: <2662.imc@uk.ac.ox.prg>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 18:26:13 GMT
- References: <Bx7rtL.CL3@cs.psu.edu>
- Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
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- X-Modified-on: Sunday, 8th November 1992 at 6:26pm GMT
- X-Local-Date: Friday, 6th November 1992 at 2:07pm GMT
- Originator: imc@msc2.comlab
-
- [Apologies if you see this twice - it didn't seem to make it the first time]
- In article <Bx7rtL.CL3@cs.psu.edu>, kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein) wrote:
- >How much is the the percieved depth change per pixel shift? Like, if I have
- >the focusing trianges 90 pixels apart, and I make a 5 pixel shift, how much
- >will I perceive the change in depth to be?
-
- That is difficult to say with any degree of accuracy. It depends on several
- parameters; moreover the eyes tend to interpret the depths of RDS images in
- a relative, rather than an absolute way - and so you cannot usually estimate
- very well the depth of a particular part of the image.
-
- That said, you can calculate the theoretical depth of any pixel by
- triangulation, and thus work out the difference between two adjacent pixels
- which are at different depths. The answer is approximately
-
- v/(e-d/res)
-
- where v is the viewing distance (i.e. how far you are away from the image),
- e is the separation of your eyes (average approx. 2.5 inches), and d/res is
- how far apart the viewing triangles are on the image. (All three are in the
- same measurement units, obviously; d/res is expressed like that because d is
- the distance in pixels and res is the number of pixels per measurement
- unit).
-
- The answer you get will be a number (probably in the range 5-50) which
- indicates how much larger the z pixels are than the (x,y) pixels.
-
- Ian Collier
- Ian.Collier@prg.ox.ac.uk | imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk
-