STEREOSCOPIC RULES ON 3DTV

Conditions derived from 150 years of practice of stereoscopic still pictures are reviewed in the case of 3D television. The main flaws to be avoided, such as disparate objects, ghost images, vertical displacement, image out of the screen, excess depth range, flicker, spurious temporal parallax, stretch or squeeze, lilliputism or giantism, are defined and considered in the case of 3DTV. Conditions for image consistency will be defined: - total consistency of shapes and dimensions in the whole visible range; - relative consistency in a narrow range if taken up with different focus; - partial consistency of shapes only at a different scale.