Making a Stereo Image
Using
Two Mirrors and One
Camera John
Toeppen
Available good
mirrors are a great starting
point. The setup and mirrors used in this demonstraton
are shown
below. These mirrors of the front surface type.
The precision calibrated finger is used
for a first guess of alignment.
The view is adjusted to create the stereo image.
The cropped and aligned images in
parallel.
A crossed view:
And the
anaglypy version.
The distance from the mirrors determines the effective baseline.
The baseline and camera direction should be horizontal - do not look
down or up at the
mirrors. Mirrors should not be tilted upwards or downwards
or the images will rotate in opposite directions.