This graduate or undergraduate textbook synthesizes the vast and growing literature on three-dimensional image capture. Engineers specializing in the various aspects cover the optical wonder of the age, models for the behavior of light, principles of binocular stereoscopic imaging, analog and digital stereo-photography, head tracked auto-stereoscopic displays, integral three-dimensional imaging techniques, principles of holography: wavefront reconstruction and holographic theory, the reinvention of holography, the cultural landscape of three-dimensional imaging, and the prime illusion.
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