STEREO3D
SYNOPSIS
stereo3d is a shell script that renders a single
Raster3D
input file as a side-by-side stereo pair.
stereo3d [options] [-png] [outfile.png ] < infile.r3d > outfile.png
stereo3d [options] -tiff [outfile.tiff] < infile.r3d > outfile.tiff
stereo3d uses the Raster3D utilities
label3d,
normal3d and
render,
and the ImageMagick image processing package.
Input is from stdin, output is to stdout unless explicitly
given on the command line.
Default output format is PNG, but TIFF output can be chosen instead.
Intermediate files are created in directory $TMPDIR, if defined, otherwise
in /usr/tmp.
- By default stereo3d generates stereo separation by applying a shear operator
to the left and right images. The -angsep option allows you to instead generate
stereo separation by rotation rather than shear. Neither method is perfect,
so you can't win. Below is a summary of the weak points of the two methods.
shear rotation
----- --------
Bounding planes always bad OK
shadows often bad OK
Z-clipping OK serious problem
specular highlights OK minor problem
EXAMPLES
If the following line would render single image:
render -png single.png < input.r3d
then the following line would render the same scene as a stereo pair instead:
stereo3d -png stereo.png < input.r3d
OPTIONS
- -angsep
- By default the stereo effect is created by applying a shear operator to
the left and right views. The -angset option instead creates stereo by
offsetting the two views by an angular separation of +/- 2.5° from the
original setting.
- -border
- By default the left and right images are placed next to each other with no
intervening space and no frame around them. The -border option requests a
4 pixel wide black border separating and surrounding the component images.
- -size HHHxVVV
- Force the size of the left and right images to HHHxVVV pixels,
overriding whatever values are given in the input file.
ENVIRONMENT
This script requires the
ImageMagick image processing package.
The default version of stereo3d invokes the label3d
script so that labels are processed in stereo also. If label3d processing
is not configured on your machine you may want to replace the stereo3d
script with an alternate version named stereo3d_nolabels in the Raster3D
distribution package.
AUTHORS
Ethan A Merritt.
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