Parallel-axes graphics using Lincoln's log method as an alternative to binocular parallax graphics

Donald B. Curtis; Robert P. Burton

doi:10.1117/12.19903

1 September 1990 Parallel-axes graphics using Lincoln's log method as an alternative to binocular parallax graphics

Donald B. Curtis, Robert P. Burton

Proceedings Volume 1256, Stereoscopic Displays and Applications; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.19903
Event: Electronic Imaging: Advanced Devices and Systems, 1990, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Abstract

Binocular parallax graphics and parallel axes graphics are described and contrasted. With appropriate hardware, binocular parallax graphics can make effective, realistic three-dimensional images. Parallel axes graphics uses simpler hardware to render its images, which, though not life-like, present data without loss of information even in more than three dimensions. Binocular parallax graphics is superior for real-world objects; parallel axes graphics is superior for presenting information with more than three simultaneous variables. Binocular parallax graphics benefits from but often requires a substantial repertoire of cues and scan conversion techniques; parallel axes graphics uses fewer cues and maps naturally to the display surface. Binocular parallax graphics offers the advantages and pitfalls of familiarity; parallel axes graphics, in its developmental stage, precludes both.

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Donald B. Curtis and Robert P. Burton "Parallel-axes graphics using Lincoln's log method as an alternative to binocular parallax graphics", Proc. SPIE 1256, Stereoscopic Displays and Applications, (1 September 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.19903

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