Synthetic 3D Imaging .

Instructor: Mark Lucente
Department of Computer Science, Columbia University

1996 Winter/Spring class meetings: Mondays, 4:10pm-6:00pm.
Location: 252 MUDD
Course number: CS E6998-045
course outline , reading list

Synthetic 3D mailing list: syn3d [at] cs.columbia.edu launches mail to everyone in the class.
Our class newsgroup: columbia.spring.cs6998-sec45.


Notes

volumetric displays

reference reading

reading list

a list of 3D display types

a list of depth cues

Shoddy-3D


Pupils: 1996

David Baisley
Diane (Beuschel) King
Dan Chan
Andrew "Andy" Denmark
Richard *Thor* Denmark
Fred Duby
Adam Fields
Joshua Grossman
Alex Jaimes
Chun Li
Sameer Nene
Cecil Pang
Miriam Roiter
Matt Soscia
Dinkar Bhat


Links

Helpful links

Intro and links for VRML - an easy way to get started

VRML 1.0 specs

Template Graphics Software Home Page (Access to WebSpace Navigator v1.0)

A Beginner's Guide to HTML - help on creating WWWeb pages.

David B.'s links - lots of good stuff

Thor's links - lots of 3D and anaglyphs

Alex's links - lots of good links


3D links

interactive 3D display technologies - stereoscopic, autostereoscopic, holographic - many commercially available

Reel 3D - one-stop shopping for stereoscopes, lenticulars, anaglyphs, etc., plus instructions on various 3D techniques.

Random-dot and macro-image "stereograms"

More random-dot and macro-image "stereograms"

intro to "autostereograms"

"Books In 3-D & About 3-D" - gee-whiz literature, but interesting.

Holographic Imaging

Practical Holography - a nascent "book" on holography by Christopher Outwater and Van Hamersveld

Research in holographic displays - interactive 3-D holography

http://www.holo.com/ - lots of starting points for holography (mostly hardcopy)

Voxel Inc. - holographic hardcopy

Internet Webseum of Holography - the on-going reality of holography. Check out the Holo-Gram Newsletter

Stereoscopic Imaging

CMU's stereoscopic display

Stereo Vision 3D Technology BT's 3DTV - our friends in the UK

New Vision "3D" - a sampling of stereoscopic techniques

StereoGraphics - purveyors of CrystalEyes

Cyberscope - Sir Wheatstone would be proud

VRex - products with polarizers

IMAX

anaglyphs

collection 3-D Web several Gerry Marks Thor's one one one overview

Autostereoscopic Imaging

BT's "3D video phone" - lenticulars coming close to high-tech

(Art)n - home of the PHSCologram, and general avant-garde use of punctuation

Cambridge autostereoscopic display

an autostereoscopic display? - in German

Volumetric Imaging

Two-photon excitation at Stanford - old technique, but lately hyped

University of Canterbury cathode-ray sphere - old ideas, but nicely done

NEOS - conceptualizing?

varifocal mirror - from the glory days


Related links

Columbia Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab

Columbia Department of Computer Science

ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee - lots of graphics examples and links

class taught by Marc Levoy AND Bill Lorensen at Stanford


Last updated: 1996 July 15

Send bugs, comments, suggestions to Mark Lucente.


Synthetic 3D Imaging / Mark Lucente / copyright 1996