Triaxes StereoTracer is designed for rendering multi-view frames out of one original picture and depth-map in order to create 3D-picture. StereoTracer can either use given depth-map or create depth-map "on-the-fly" out of original picture or stereo-pair.

Depth-map (also known as disparity image or Z-image) is a gray-scale image which resolution is equal to original image.

Depth-map serves to convert original picture into a three-dimensional one. Brightness of pixel in depth-map shows distance from the same pixel in original picture to viewer. The lighter areas in depth-map correspond to the areas nearer to the viewer, the darker ones correspond to more remote areas. White pixel in depth map means that the pixel of original picture has the smallest distance to viewer (foreground), black pixel in depth-map means that the pixel of original picture has the biggest distance to viewer (background).

StereoTracer generates a number of frames which all have a slightly different viewing angle. This process models shooting of a scene from different points across the horizontal line.

The resulting series of frames is used to create 3D-picture in Triaxes 3DMasterKit. Or, you can export resulting frames to movie clip (AVI or GIF) and publish it to Web.

StereoTracer is available in Home and Pro edition.

StereoTracer Pro features:

• multi-view frames generation out of original picture and depth-map
• depth-map generation out of original picture
• depth-map generation out of stereo-pair