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Ask Slashdot: Tips On 2D To Stereo 3D Conversion? 125

Posted by timothy
from the aggghhh-my-eyes-my-eyes dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I'm interested in converting 2D video to Stereoscopic 3D video — the Red/Cyan Anaglyph type in particular (to ensure compatibility with cardboard Anaglyph glasses). Here's my questions: Which software(s) or algorithms can currently do this, and do it well? Also, are there any 3D TVs on the market that have a high quality 2D-to-3D realtime conversion function in them? And finally, if I were to try and roll my own 2D-to-3D conversion algorithm, where should I start? Which books, websites, blogs or papers should I look at?" I'd never even thought about this as a possibility; now I see there are some tutorials available; if you've done it, though, what sort of results did you get? And any tips for those using Linux?
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  • Special FX (Score:5, Informative)

    by damaki (997243) on Tuesday January 24, @11:54AM (#38805999)
    A friend of mine used to work for a French special effects company and he had to work on this. He told me that this is basically a world of pain and it produces great piles of smocking shit. It just sucks, even when done properly by highly trained people. Can you imagine making 3D out of a 2D tree? Make every background 3D or properly cut out the character to get the desired effect?
    It sucks, it's mostly manual, get over it.

  • this can be done easily with ffmpeg and imagemagic (Score:5, Informative)

    by nitrofurano (2560015) on Tuesday January 24, @12:19PM (#38806381)
    this can be done easily with ffmpeg and imagemagick - you need two video sources, and from a ffmpeg script, extracting a picture sequence from both videos, one sequence from the left camera, and another from the right - with a bash script using imagemagick you will separate the colour channels from each frame: red from one camera, and green/blue from another - and having the separation done, you will join with imagemagick again the red channel picture frame from one and green/blue from another, into a new picture sequence, and when you have this sequence ready, you convert it into video again with ffmpeg - try googling for ffmpeg and imagemagick instruction arguments when coding this bash script

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