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Mars In 3D

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Hannah Montana by Robotech_Master · · Score: 2, 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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  2. VERY IMPORTANT!! Turn glasses backwards! by ClioCJS · · Score: 3, Informative

    Citation needed, but I trust my own eyes: If you have 3-D glasses, you'll need to fold them inside out / turn them backwards / invert the red and blue. These pictures have red & blue inverted compared to most 3-D images. NASA has it backwards, if you will. The results were MUCH better looking and MUCH less painful with glasses on backwards. With "normal" glasses, my wife & I were both quite confused as to why it sucked so bad. It didn't. NASA just does red blue backwards.

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  3. that's because by ClioCJS · · Score: 5, Informative

    You need to turn your glasses backwards/inside out/blue red instead of red blue. Silly NASA.

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  4. General gripe about 3D formats. by Chatsubo · · Score: 3, 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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    1. Re:General gripe about 3D formats. by Anonymous Coward · · 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.