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Mars In 3D
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CmdrTaco
on Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:05 PM
from the next-lets-blow-bubbles dept.
from the next-lets-blow-bubbles dept.
xaositects writes "Now I know all of you have your 3D glasses from 1985 still, so don them once again to check out these cool 3D images of Mars's Arctic landscape from the Phoenix Lander's stereoscopic imager. There are also a few close-ups of the parts of Phoenix that are in view and a link to more pictures on the Phoenix Image Gallery."
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The obligatory.... (Score:3, Funny)
"My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"
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...and true. I spent a whole minute looking at four images (happened to have a pair of R/B 3d glasses at work, amazingly) and another 4 minutes for my eyes to start working properly again.
that's because (Score:5, Informative)
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Aaaaaah. I turned the blue one inside out and made the red one backwards, flipped them around and then over, and thanks to your insightful suggestion, I am now blind. Thank you very much, Slashdot! *mock rage*
1985 (Score:5, Funny)
Now I know all of your have your 3D glasses from 1985...
I was born in late 1986, you insensitive clod!
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It's worse than that; it uses the old fashioned red-blue glasses from the 1950s ('40s?) rather than the newer polarized glasses from the '80s (70s?). Of course, the polarized glasses will only work on a projected image so it's a good thing they used the old method.
You're almost as old as my daughters. Thanks for reminding me of my geezerhood, you insensitive clod!
Re:1985 (Score:4, Funny)
I was born in late 1986, you insensitive clod!
What a coincidence... I lost my virginity in early 1986!
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Hannah Montana (Score:3, Informative)
If you wander by a Wal-Mart, you can probably still find a display full of 3D goggles for the upcoming Hannah Montana concert video.
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separated images available? (Score:5, Interesting)
Does anyone know if they post the left and right images separately anywhere?
For those of us who don't have immediate access to a pair of red-blue glasses, there are other ways..
For instance, they could provide an animated gif of both images alternating, which gives you a 3D impression as if you're moving your head to the left and right. This doesn't require glasses and can be a pretty effective way to get an image to "pop out" without actually being stereoscopic.
Re:separated images available? (Score:5, Funny)
For instance, they could provide an animated gif of both images alternating, which gives you a 3D impression as if you're moving your head to the left and right. This doesn't require glasses and can be a pretty effective way to get an image to "pop out" without actually being stereoscopic.
Are we still talking about Hannah Montana?
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General gripe about 3D formats. (Score:4, Informative)
So many places make these shitty R/B images available and not the seperate image pairs. There are many ways to display a 3D image, you've mentioned one. There's also free-viewing, where you cross your eyes and actually get a much better result than viewing with R/B glasses (no colour augmentation, no ghosting). And then there's my personal favourite, LCD shutter glasses (some ghosting, but no need to strain your eye muscles, and you can view a full screen).
Of course, you can create the R/B image from pairs, but not the other way around, at the very least, places that want to make 3D content available should provide both options.
I've noted the item earlier this week about a standard emerging sometime soon for 3D broadcasting. I can't wait.
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In the case of these images, the left image is entirely in the red bits in the image, and the right image is the sum of blue and green, so you can separate them, if you've got any image processing software. (Or did I get left and right reversed?)
Re:General gripe about 3D formats. (Score:4, Informative)
Hmm. I just realized that's a copyrighted image... Taking it down sorry.
Leave it up. Work products of the U.S. Government (ie. any pictures from NASA) are public domain with a few exceptions that don't apply here. Just because someone sticks a copyright notice on something doesn't make it copyrighted.
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For those of us who don't have immediate access to a pair of red-blue glasses, there are other ways..
I prefer cross eye freeviewing.
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Yup, that works too.
No worky... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm blind in one eye you blue-tinted insensitive clods!
Re:No worky... (Score:4, Funny)
Just spin a coloured transparent disk - half-red, half-blue - in front of your eye reaaaaally fast while looking at the pictures, and your brain will probably get the idea after a few minutes*.
*this may be a load of bollocks, I just made it up.
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Psh (Score:5, Funny)
Go into any good supermarket and you can pick up a full 3D model of Mars for pennies. Screw the 3D glasses, you can feel the ridges on it yourself, even dig to find if there really IS water beneath the surface.
So far, all I've found is Nougat and Caramel, though...
Mars is 3D? (Score:3, Funny)
Who would have thought?
Summary links (Score:2)
I don't know if it's their server from the slashdot effect, but the first link from the summary takes me to a page with little but google ads, a link to the story (which just reloads the page) and a link to a list of other stories by the author. It is completely useless.
The second link in the summary leads to the NASA site, and it actually has the pictures. They're (of course) the old fashioned red/blue stereo pictures that you can use in a monitor or TV set, and not the newer polarized stereo glasses.
Was that sand and pebbles? (Score:3, Insightful)
VERY IMPORTANT!! Turn glasses backwards! (Score:3, Informative)
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This is probably due to my lack of understanding on how 3-D works, but can't someone just flip the image horizontally?
Why these green/red thingies? (Score:3, Interesting)
What is more important almost all the 3D Computer Generated Images have depth information already to do hidden line removal. Thus there are already displays in the market to render any OpenGL or similar input into stereoscopic projection. So yeah, it is getting more and more popular in CAD, CGI worlds.
Sorry don't have time to search and post links to these technologies, but they are easy enough to find using google.