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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Image Processing Techniques _ Trying to Create a Rover Anaglyph Overlay

Posted by: CosmicRocker Feb 22 2011, 07:19 AM

I am hoping someone here can help me find a way to create a stereo pair of rover images that I can overlay into an anaglyph scene. In order to do it effectively I will need to be able to control the orientation of a rover model on the screen in order to create images that have the correct angular difference to match the depth in the scene I want to drop the rover into...if you know what I mean.

Can anyone help me solve this problem? I am sure there is commercial software that can do this if I can find a suitable 3D model, but I would like to do this without spending a lot of money on software. My first thought was to use MMB and its movie making functions to generate a stereo pair of rover images, but it really doesn't give me the kind of control I need over the rover orientation. I suspect something like Povray could do it, but I need something with a shallower learning curve than that.

Any ideas?

Posted by: JohnVV Feb 23 2011, 12:13 AM

check out Blender .I think there is a plugin for that ,but i am not 100% sure .

Posted by: CosmicRocker Feb 23 2011, 07:43 AM

Thanks for the tip, John. It looks like Blender can do the job, but now I need to find a digital model of a rover that I can open in the program.

Posted by: DaveRM Feb 23 2011, 01:31 PM

There is a basic 3d model of the Mars Exploration Rover in the Google 3d Warehouse.

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=9f1021ec701fd96dc82b8fee1057b30&prevstart=0

The collada model does inport into Blender 2.56.

DaveM

Posted by: CosmicRocker Feb 24 2011, 05:14 AM

Thanks very much, Dave. That was the last piece of the puzzle.