From: "richter1956" <richter1956@yahoo.com>

Date: May 4, 2008 2:00:13 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Moon Anaglyph

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Tim" <tjp314@...> wrote:

Hi Alberto:

Okay, I see now.  The baseline of the Earth's diameter is sufficient

to provide a 3-D effect on the whole disk of the moon,

That is a good first step... 

 but not quite enough to show mountains and craters in relief.

Unfortunately I don't own mi Hirise camera so for this reason i asked the help of Alan 

Friedman: the Earth based hirise camera!

I like to experiment even odd alternatives and sometimes the experiment are a little out of 

the canonical parameters...  otherwise which experiments  are they?

Until yesterday seemed impossible to have the global effect on the moon roundness too... 

who know that maybe we could perceive some 3D detail even in Plato...

Anyway the Hirise images are stunning (of course) even if i'm not sure about the3D  

deepness accuracy (or dramatical exaggeration) due to the big angle of view.

I was just playing yesterday with the Hirise Viewer Online which allows to have a huge 

control on the viewed image.

By the way... sometimes even in my 3D computergraphic animations i use the same 

method  that you used for Mars: i render a circular animation with a camera orbitating 

(and aiming)  around the central object (example 720 total frames) then i combine it into 

anaglyph time-shifting the red channel of the appropriate number of frames (each frame 

shift= 0.5°). In that way i can decide the angle of view even after a single animation is 

rendered.

In this way the  deepness can be decided post-rendering.

Regards

In the past, I've made anaglyphs of Mars and Jupiter by combining

images taken several minutes apart with my Fleas and Astro IIDC. 

Antonio Cidadao has anaglyph images on his planetary imaging website: