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A Hitchhiker's Guide to Virtual Reality
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A Hitchhiker's Guide to Virtual Reality

by Karen McMenemy, Robin Stuart Ferguson
July 2007
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
604 pages
17h 36m
English
A K Peters/CRC Press
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438 16. Programming Stereopsis
16.2 File Formats for Storing
Stereoscopic Images
Since stereoscopic pictures are basically a combination of two separate pic-
tures, it is possible to adapt any of the single image formats for stereo use.
There are a number that we have heard of—JPS, GIS, BMS, PNS—but there
may be others, too. Each of these is simply an extension of the well-known
JPEG, GIF, BMP, and PNG standards respectively. Sim ply by changing the
filename extension and using an implied layout for the images, a display pro-
gram can separate out the left and right parts and present them to the viewer
in the correct way. However, many image
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ISBN: 9781568814773