Part 2 of: A Plethora of X3D GigaMacro Images (Mars Curiosity, Spirit, Opportunity, Lunar and MRO HiRISE)

@Jimmy

Glad to see you're back on here. 😁

Dave brought to my attention that the dual gigamacro images that I discovered aren't actually stereo images. He said they're both the left navcam images, if I remember correctly. After being told this, I did notice that you don't get a lot of depth, however I personally think it is much clearer viewing them locked together as a pair as opposed to viewing just a single image. Having said that, try it for yourself and let me know if you agree.

I also wanted to mention that Allan Walker (from the YT channel Mars The Second Genesis) has taken actual stereo images from different gigapans and uses stereo photo maker to scroll through these images. Because of the position from the Rover, you have to adjust the parallax to keep the images in focus with actual depth. What he showed me was how to select a particular chunk of the larger image and cut it and create a smaller portion that holds the depth. It makes sense now after seeing him do this, but I still enjoy looking at the Gigamacro images like they are X3D.

You're welcome Neal.

So I have a question for you.. Are the stereo pairs that I discovered on the GigaMacro site processed by you and those who upload them, or does the site have a way of turning all of the images uploaded into stereo pairs? I noticed that when I searched (I first realized that using an outside search engine like Duck Duck Go or Google gave me better results than the internal search on the GigaMacro site), for you, Neville and Keith Laney, the images I got were not stereo pairs. Once I caught on to the naming convention that Neville was using (I tried "MSL" at first), I used the GigaMacro search and all the stereo pairs came up.

@MarsX3D

Thanks Dave 😁