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by mlyle 914 days ago
But if you have eyes 50mm apart, and source material from cameras 15mm apart (plus other depth information), you'll need to in-paint a small amount where your eyes could see "around" something and the cameras can't.
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Or you can make do with 15mm-apart worth of "around"?

It's still more "spatial"/3D than a regular (single lens) image.

Plus this has a wide lens and a "regular" lens (actually both wide iirc but one is ultrawide), so it's not like 2 equal lenses 50mm apart like in regular stereoscopic "3d" video.

> Or you can make do with 15mm-apart worth of "around"?

You need to move the close objects further apart in left/right than they are in the camera. Then you need to fill the newly empty areas with something.

> Plus this has a wide lens and a "regular" lens (actually both wide iirc but one is ultrawide), so it's not like 2 equal lenses 50mm apart like in regular stereoscopic "3d" video.

This doesn't affect anything.

I was responding to

> The bigger problem is the inpainting needed to generate hidden detail when the movie is viewed from angles that are different from the one it was actually filmed from.

Yes-- so to even create a fixed view with viewports that are further apart than the real cameras are, you have ot inpaint hidden detail.