Clouds in 3D, time to revisit an old topic? |
Clouds in 3D, time to revisit an old topic? |
Jun 6 2014, 01:35 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
The last time we discussed this, I think, was around the time of the UMSF balloon flight. The idea was to use images of clouds obtained at intervals fom an ascending balloon as stereo pairs. Horizontally separated successive images from a plane could potentially work the same way. I think someone (ugordan?) had a go at doing this. IIRC the enemy was - time. The clouds changed too much in the time interval necessary beween shots for good 3D images to be obtained.
But now we have the marvellous HDEV from the ISS, a very fast moving platform! Images separated by just a few seconds should be wide enough apart to use for 3D without the clouds themselves having time to change significantly. I can imagine a split screen view from the downward pointing camera, with a short delay on one side relative to the other. Viewing this as cross-eye should generate a 3-D movie showing not only clouds but also mountains rising upward toward the viewer. Of course I haven't a clue how to accomplish this but I bet there are a few folks here who could, or maybe even have already. Does anybody else think it might be worth a go? |
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Jun 6 2014, 02:12 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2346 Joined: 7-December 12 Member No.: 6780 |
I'd guess, all you need to do, is to use two copies of the video sequence, one with a delay of a few seconds, rotate the frames according to the direction of motion, use one copy as left eye, the other as right eye sequence.
For a test, whether there is enough depth, two images taken with the supposed delay would be sufficient. |
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Jun 6 2014, 02:20 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Take a couple of screenshots a few seconds apart and try it.
I had a go a few weeks ago basically without success. |
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Jun 6 2014, 04:14 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2346 Joined: 7-December 12 Member No.: 6780 |
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Jun 6 2014, 05:24 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Brilliant! Well done. How many seconds gap did you use?
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Jun 6 2014, 05:33 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2346 Joined: 7-December 12 Member No.: 6780 |
Thanks! (I won't make a movie.)
In this case I waited until the scene has moved 37% the width of the (uncropped raw) image. Unfortunately the camera switched rather frequently; that way it wasn't quite easy to grab a nice cloud with a long baseline. |
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Jun 6 2014, 08:42 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
I have not tried this yet, so.....
Stereo pipeline should be able to do that from the iss images use each frame as a base pair and the iss orbit ground track as the distance from frame to frame for the left/right distance create a *.pc and export it as a mesh or use the z-axis pc file as a height map for a render blender,maya,pov-ray,... |
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Jun 8 2014, 09:25 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 29-June 09 From: Albuquerque, New Mexico USA Member No.: 4845 |
I do 3-D clouds from the ISS frequently. I use StereoPhotoMaker and just combine the images. I go here for the raw images http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/
As far as doing 3-D pairs with HDEV it's possible but the cameras are usually pointed at the horizon and you really want them looking downward or oblique. https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/billdavis6959/ -------------------- |
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Jun 9 2014, 05:44 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
That is truly spectacular. Please post more here as you do them.
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Jun 9 2014, 03:15 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 29-June 09 From: Albuquerque, New Mexico USA Member No.: 4845 |
Thanks, the main problem in doing these stereo pictures from the ISS may be the sheer number of images that you have to go through to find a usable pair. There are easily over a million images in the database at "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of the Earth" (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/) and you will go blind before you can ever see them all. A fast connection with dual monitors helps and I would recommend filtering only the images taken with 400mm lens and above. If you have a series of images of a specific scene skip a few to provide a better baseline for hyper-stereo effect. I cannot emphasize enough the program StereoPhotoMaker, it will make this type of work much easier...
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Jun 9 2014, 10:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
the main problem in doing these stereo pictures from the ISS may be the sheer number of images that you have to go through to find a usable pair That's where HDEV comes in handy. Any two images 15 or 20 seconds apart will do. The downard pointing camera is selected often enough that there are plentiful opportunities. |
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Jun 10 2014, 06:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
I found some more cloud anaglyphs here: http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http...=43&ndsp=17
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Jun 11 2014, 01:14 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 29-June 09 From: Albuquerque, New Mexico USA Member No.: 4845 |
I think this kind of imagery would be useful for the above mentioned time delay method of stereo video.
If you have never heard of Skybox Imaging you may be surprised by this new non-government capability of real time high resolution video from orbit. I tried running two VLC windows side by side and screen grabbing to create X-view video but the results were less than satisfactory. http://vimeo.com/92072374 |
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Aug 4 2014, 03:37 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 29-June 09 From: Albuquerque, New Mexico USA Member No.: 4845 |
Here is a website that runs the HD video from the ISS in two windows to enable cross-view stereo.
A very slight delay on the right window gives good 3-D effect depending on the direction of the view. http://www.satflare.com/iss3dhd/#video3d -------------------- |
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Aug 4 2014, 03:34 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Great find! Thanks for posting.
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