If you're really bothered that JPEG will become unreadable - something I doubt, givent that it is an open format - try something like PPM. Straightforward RGB raster format, and you could even put a description of the format in the comment field at the top of the file!
Hmm...something that can look at a two dimensional picture and infer depth...
That happens *every time* I look at the TV. What possible value is gained by this? We already perceive 3-dimensionality from a 2-d source through the normal cues (lighting, foreshortening, parallax etc.) and our brains do a good job of solving it, considering that it is an ill-posed problem requiring a domain of knowledge.
Taking a 2-d image, making it into two images, one for each eye, won't do anything other than move the preliminary processing outside the head. I doubt that any computer can match the human visual system, either.
Is it? Try a tracert to www.nato.int - it goes through *.UK.KPNQwest.net and *.BE.KPNQwest.net from here (UK) so I suspect that rumours of its demise have been exaggerated.
I seem to recall reading that they did it in the early morning. That would make sense, after all - I don't live in NYC, but given its northerly latitude, it will get long days in summer, and early sunrises. If they filmed it at, say, 5am, it wouldn't have affected most people.
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If you're really bothered that JPEG will become unreadable - something I doubt, givent that it is an open format - try something like PPM. Straightforward RGB raster format, and you could even put a description of the format in the comment field at the top of the file!
Hmm...something that can look at a two dimensional picture and infer depth...
That happens *every time* I look at the TV. What possible value is gained by this? We already perceive 3-dimensionality from a 2-d source through the normal cues (lighting, foreshortening, parallax etc.) and our brains do a good job of solving it, considering that it is an ill-posed problem requiring a domain of knowledge.
Taking a 2-d image, making it into two images, one for each eye, won't do anything other than move the preliminary processing outside the head. I doubt that any computer can match the human visual system, either.
Is it? Try a tracert to www.nato.int - it goes through *.UK.KPNQwest.net and *.BE.KPNQwest.net from here (UK) so I suspect that rumours of its demise have been exaggerated.
I seem to recall reading that they did it in the early morning. That would make sense, after all - I don't live in NYC, but given its northerly latitude, it will get long days in summer, and early sunrises. If they filmed it at, say, 5am, it wouldn't have affected most people.
s/SCREEN_RES/get_screen_res()/g
or more likely: s/160/get_screen_res()/g