3D Postproduction

 

 

CHAPTER 4

The GEOMETRY Workflow

 

 

“Now the talents of this same industry have, quite literally, a new dimension to exploit and all the space in the world (again, quite literally) to work in. This space can be thrown away, as a passing novelty. Or the industry can determine to use this space, the solid realism of the new dimension as a true addition to the medium they have created. This would be our best assurance that people will be carried away by the realism of the art.”

—Edwin Land quoted in Ray Zone’s Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film 1838–1952

4.1 Overview

The geometry workflow (Figure 4.1) consists of correcting mismatches between L and R in image pairs. The mismatch itself is not the problem. After all, viewing slightly ...