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- From: hollasch@kpc.com (Steve Hollasch)
- Subject: Re: 3d displays
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.185104.10423@kpc.com>
- Summary: Levels of display
- Sender: usenet@kpc.com
- Organization: Kubota Pacific Computer, Inc.
- References: <hollasch@COM.KPC> <9211040706.AA12369@psi.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:51:04 GMT
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- Hollasch:
- > Seriously, though, what sort of scheme are you thinking of? Polarized
- > glasses and LCD shutter glasses have both been used for stereo display, but
- > I've never heard of any attempts to use these for 3D displays.
-
- CDO@IB.RL.AC.UK (C D Osland) writes:
- | I think I'm confused, Steve. Accepting that there are some (very few)
- | 3D displays (such as the image pumped through the air by a loudspeaker
- | that I mentioned last week, and 3D scanned plastic), I don't understand
- | the difference between stereo and 3D in your last sentence.
-
- Well, here's a range of display types:
-
- 1) 2D Image
- 2) Stereo View
- 3) Hologram
- 4) 3D Image
-
- There are other types (lower level, higher level, in between), but these
- are the main ones.
-
- A 2D display is just a regular picture - it's as if you were looking
- through a window with one eye.
-
- A stereo image is better because it provides depth information in the
- "natural" way; through paralax to provide visual disparity. Your virtual
- head is still locked in a vise though; there's only one possible view.
-
- A hologram is an improvement on this. You get paralax as in stereo
- display, but your view is a bit more free to change. It's as if you were
- looking through a window, but without your head in a vise. You can move
- your head around and see behind things, or under things, but you are still
- constrained to look through the virtual viewport/window.
-
- A 3D display is the next extension. It's analogous to a sculpture on
- a pedestal. You can walk around it, look at the top, any side view, and if
- it's free-standing, underneath it. Even, perhaps inside it, if the
- underlying ``magic'' allows this.
-
- Now, perhaps the original poster didn't mean this at all, but my idea of
- a 3D image is _very_ different from a stereo view. Hope this clears up some
- confusion.
-
- ______________________________________________________________________________
- Steve Hollasch Kubota Pacific Computer, Inc.
- hollasch@kpc.com Santa Clara, California
-