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I’ve been playing around with getting some red/cyan stereoscopic 3D working of late, and it’s all turned out rather well – take a look… (Red/Blue or Red/Cyan glasses are required for the effect to work):

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If you’ve got suitable glasses you should definitely see a 3D effect, although I don’t think me rescaling the image has done it any favours – so click the image to see the full sized version for the full effect.

The trick to this has been to render the scene twice to two separate FBO textures, then sample from the left and right textures to draw a fullscreen quad with a combined version as follows:

// Fragment shader to perform Analyphic 3D conversion of two textures from the left and right eyes
#version 330
 
uniform sampler2D leftEyeTexture;
uniform sampler2D rightEyeTexture;
 
in vec2 vTexCoord;
 
out vec4 vFragColour;
 
void main(void)
{
	vec4 leftFrag = texture(leftEyeTexture, vTexCoord);
	leftFrag = vec4(1.0, leftFrag.g, leftFrag.b, 1.0); // Left eye is full red and actual green and blue
 
	vec4 rightFrag = texture(rightEyeTexture, vTexCoord);
	rightFrag = vec4(rightFrag.r, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0); // Right eye is full green and blue and actual red
 
	// Multiply left and right components for final ourput colour
	vFragColour = vec4(leftFrag.rgb * rightFrag.rgb, 1.0); 
}

In the code itself, the torus’ spin around on the spot and look pretty good, although there’s no anti-aliasing as yet as I need to create some multisample buffers instead of straight/normal buffers for the FBO, but it’s not decided to play ball just yet – not to worry though, the hard part’s done and I’m sure multisampling will be sorted in a day or so. After that, I might give ColorCode3D (TM)(R)(C)(Blah) a go, as it seems to give a better colour representation whilst still allowing the same amount of depth as traditional anaglyphic techniques. Also, I’ve got to start using asymmetric frustums for the projection to minimise the likelihood of eye-strain, but I don’t see that as being too much of a problem.

Good times! =D