A Common Interface for Stereo Viewing in Various Environments

摘要

This paper presents a graphical software infrastructure for stereo display. It enables the development of low-cost/shortdevelopment cycle stereo applications that are portable – not only across platforms, but across display types as well.Moreover, it allows not just images but entire GUI's (Graphics User Interface) to be displayed in stereo consistentlyacross many platforms. Java Advanced Display Infrastructure for Stereo (JADIS) provides a common interface for displaying GUI componentsin stereo using either specialized stereo display hardware (e.g. liquid crystal shutter or polarized glasses) or anaglyphdisplay (red/blue glasses) on standard computer displays. An application using this toolkit will work withoutmodification in either environment, allowing stereo software to reach a wider audience (anaglyphs) without sacrificinghigh-quality display on dedicated hardware. JADIS has been released as Open Source and is available via the Open Channel foundation websitetil. It has beenintegrated into several applications for stereo viewing and processing of data acquired by current and future NASA Marssurface missions (e.g. Mars Exploration Rover (MER), Phoenix Lander, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)).