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From: twriter@ohrd.uucp (Timothy Writer KR186_x6990)
Subject: Re: 3d from 2D
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.193032.28077@ohrd.uucp>
Organization: Ontario Hydro - Research Division, Toronto, CANADA
References: <5d6f84k@rpi.edu>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 91 19:30:32 GMT

In article <5d6f84k@rpi.edu> onders@raphael.ipl.rpi.edu (Timothy E. Onders) writes:
>A couple of years ago, there was an article on Nova(on PBS), about research
>somewhere on converting a series of two dimensional images to a three
>dimensional representation.  The example given was panning a camera past
>a model of a town and generating the 3D image from that.
>
>	If anyone has any information on this, or similar work, please
>tell me. 

I saw a paper in the Proceedings of the '91 International Symposium on
Advanced Robot Technology ('91 ISART) held in Tokyo in early March where
the authors did exactly what you ask in a nuclear power plant.  I don't
recall the title or the authors but if you get yourself a copy of the
proceedings you should be able to find it.

Tim

