Aeolian Features

That’s a super series, Wayne, and I would love, with your permission, and with full attribution to you, to use it in an Appendix of my book.

You remind me of a fellow in my “viewers’ stable” who, like you, is firmly wedded to horizontally displaced disparities ( in his case due to anisometropic refractive differences). If I send him some images with strong vertical disparities he has to turn them 90° to be able to perceive the 3D effect.

Now, as to your image series:

I can view and merge the entire series easily and comfortably. I went through it first to confirm that ALL merged comfortably and that ALL yielded bathopsis (stereopsis) as well, and then took a break for a cuppa. Then went back with my old darkroom timer and viewed and merged each angle example for a full two minutes each, foveating details in center, each corner, and all edges when ever corresponding detail points were extant. No discomfort whatsoever was experienced with any of the pairs.

The reason, I am absolutely sure, is that the disparities are all of a mild degree of displacement, regardless of direction.

Now I fully recognize that some of my 3D conversions that exhibit stronger khóropsis and stereopsis do so due to more pronounced diagonal and vertical displacements, and can be predicted to cause some discomfort in some viewers with prolonged viewing.

I superimposed your pairs for foveation mapping and all revealed only very mild challenges to sequential foveation saccades.

I am curious as to the focal length used for this image...normal? short? long? long macro? It makes a difference and I am in the process of working out a predictive scale of relative effects on khóropsis and stereopsis indices.

I am sending you a personal message with a series of images I’d like you to view. They are also from an Appendix

Regards,

Dave