Chapter 12

Stereoscopy

image

image

left-eye view

right-eye view

Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you should:

  • understand what stereoscopy is;
  • understand how we can produce stereo pairs with ray tracing;
  • have implemented a stereo camera.

This is a fun chapter whose material is not strictly necessary for the following chapters. Most readers will need a stereoscope to view the images in this chapter, but not everyone can see in stereo.

Stereoscopy is the phenomenon of seeing in three dimensions. It exists because our left and right eyes ...

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