I got a bit tired of the back end coding for the Multi-View branch and decided to tackle the frontend for a change.
Anaglyph Mode for 3-D (Multi-View) – Los Padres OpenEXR [link]
Stereo Display Options
Blender has a very modern drawing system (nicknamed Triple Buffer) which takes control over the buffer swapping routines (instead of relying on the graphic card Front/Back Buffer handling). That allows Blender to redraw the UI really efficiently. That also made the front-end implementation a breeze.
Now in User Preferences you can set the 3-D display you will be using with Blender. At some point I may make it a per-window option, but for now it will affect all the opened windows.
Next thing you need is a 3-D (Multi-View) image. You can simply render your own images (make sure the RenderViews are named “left” and “right”) or download a few OpenEXR samples.
With no 3-D display set, when you open a 3-D image you should see the views in the Image Editor drop-down. When any 3-D display is set, however, you will see a new “3-D” option. Once this is set, you can take full advantage of your 3D-gear.
The following are samples from the other current display options. Be aware that the image I’m using doesn’t converge in a nice stereo 3-D photo. It’s in fact intentionally produced to show very different images, to make sure the code is working (programmers, go figure).
Side-by-Side
Top-Bottom
Interlaced
And not that you asked, but this was a great weekend for my 3-D philia. Iron Man 3 was a nice movie, and yesterday I attended two seminars at the SID – Display Week 2013 which turned to be quite inspiring talks with the addition of seeing some jaw-drop 3-D displays. I’m actually going there again tomorrow for the exhibit booth to see if I can clarify some pending questions that I have. I guess I should thank Queen Victoria for the long weekend 😉
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