Oops! I realize that my estimate was based upon a very stupid assumption -- that you were standing about half way between the balls and the architecture in the background. Of course, you're much closer to the balls as I should have discerned by looking at your feet.
I haven't tried the reversing thing. I suspect that the distortion caused by ripples in the balls will make it a bit weird to look at. Is it?
-- Victor
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21-Jul-2008 00:00
I'm glad you posted the picture of the pyramid. It helps me put your entry into context.
Victor, your info is very valuable for me. I was not aware that the reflections are suitable for stereoscopic viewing. I use to make image pairs for cross-eyed viewing from time to time. Now I imported two elements from this image into spm (stereo photo maker) and exchanged the left one with the right one (I am not able to use parallel view) - almost perfect!
The spheres are much smaller, about 12 cm in diameter if I remember right. Here is a picture of the location.
The pyramid is roughly 5 m high. My feet were touching the bottom of the pyramid, focal length was 40 mm.
Cool image. Using a splayed eyes technique, you can use those as stereo pairs (cross-eyed view is inside-out). Judging by the parallax I see, those balls are rather large. They must be a foot or more across.
Actually, what I said about the stereo pairs applies to images that are single reflections. For multiple reflections, it's more complicated, but those are so small and warped, they're probably not useful for stereo pairs anyway.
