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In this paper, we describe a method to create an approximate ray-traced stereoscopic pair by transforming a fully raytraced left-eye view into an inferred right-eye view. Performance results from evaluating several random scenes, which indicate that the second view in a stereoscopic image can be computed with as little as 5% of the effort required to fully ray-trace the first view, are presented. We also discuss worst-case performance of our algorithm and demonstrate that our technique is always at least as efficient as two passes of a standard ray-tracer.
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Adelson, S.J., Hodges, L.F. Stereoscopic ray-tracing. The Visual Computer 10, 127–144 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01900903
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