The Many Ways to Create a 3-D Image

This article provides some basic information about the ways stereoscopic 3-D images can be displayed for cinema, consumer, or professional applications. While this may sound like a fairly simple exercise, in fact, there are probably dozens of ways to do this. As a result, it is useful to have a reference article that briefly describes the more popular approaches and organizes these approaches to better understand the features and benefits of each. Accompanying this article is a wall chart of stereoscopic 3-D display technologies. This family tree is broken into three branches and outlines the various approaches to creating 3-D. But even the structure of the wall chart was not so straightforward as it can be organized in several ways.

Print ISSN

1545-0279

Electronic ISSN

2160-2492

Published

2008-05

Content type

Information

DOI

10.5594/J15098