Never done a stereo pair rendering with my code, but should not
be hard to convert the camera choreography into a twin camera
mode. I already have a 5 camera mode for dome rendering. Let
me work on this.

Frank


On Thursday 01 May 2008 5:12 am, Doug Roberts wrote:
> Frank,
>
> Very nice animation and great comparison between simulation and
> observations. One question, could you create (or provide the
> S2PLOT script + data) a version of this in stereo? In the SVL this
> is one of the things we show comparing on separate displays (one of
> which is stereo and the other tiled display). I understand the HST
> images would be 2D but the simulations must be able to be rendered
> in 3D.
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
>
> Frank Summers wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > For HST's 18th anniversary today, we released 59 images
> > of galaxy interactions. It is a great collection of images
> > and worth checking out.
> >
> > http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/16/
> > <http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/16/>
> >
> > As a visualization to accompany the images, I took
> > a galaxy collsion simulation and matched it to five
> > of the images. I run the simulation, pause it, rotate
> > to match the observed geometry, and cross-fade to
> > the observations. I think the effect is really cool, but
> > my opinion is obviously biased.
> >
> > http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/16/video/d
> >/
> > <http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/16/video/
> >d/>
> >
> > I wanted to note to this list a nifty piece of software
> > that enabled this viz. I used the S2PLOT libraries from
> > the folks at Swinburne to quickly write a custom
> > application for viewing the simulation data in 3D. In
> > just one afternoon, I Iearned enough of S2PLOT to create
> > a basic app that can view the data as points, rotate
> > in 3D, and output the camera coordinates and orientation
> > to the screen. Since my render code is in C, having C libraries
> > for pre-viz was a perfect fit. This quick app made finding
> > the correct camera position for matching simulation to
> > observation much easier.
> >
> > http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/s2plot/
> > <http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/s2plot/>
> >
> > A public thanks to the Swinburne folks for their software.
> >
> > Frank
> >
> > Space Telescope Science Institute 410-338-4749
> > 3700 San Martin Dr 410-338-4579 (fax)
> > Baltimore, MD 21218 summers@...
> > <mailto:summers%40stsci.edu>
> > http://terpsichore.stsci.edu/~summers/
> > <http://terpsichore.stsci.edu/%7Esummers/>

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Frank

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