Andrew Wiles
4/1/97
600.457:  Final Project Proposal

	For my final project, I want to create a viewing system which
allows viewing of a 3D object on a 2D plane using a red-green system for
creating the illusion of depth.  This idea is commonly used in creating
photographic stills where an object is made to appear to have a depth
factor when the veiwer places a red gel over one eye and a green gel over
the other.  However, as the user will be able to interact with the object,
each frame will be rendered using red-green, so that when an object
rotates, it will appear to have depth when it does.

	The majority of this project will be in implementation.  I plan on
making my system an extension to OpenGL, so that implementing a red-green
system would be simple in a program which already uses GL for its
graphics.  For example, let's say that a program draws a polygon using GL
functions and is about to display it.  Before they display it, they call
another function which would draw the red and green regions as well.  In
this case, the rendering of the red and green would be transparent to the
programmer drawing an image, making it very simple to create a red-green
image without knowing how to do so.  This also allows the programmer to
use other GL functions in the rendering of his image - lighting, specular
effects, texturing, and so forth.

	Interanlly, I also plan on abstracting the 3D-ifying routines.
What I intend is that the system should be extensible enough that, in the
future, it not be limited to red-green.  For example, the same routines
could also be used to implement the use of LCD shutter glasses or using a
head mask with sperate screens for the left and right eye.  I plan on
implementing the routines such that implementing these features in
the future would not be an exceedingly difficult task.

	The program I intend on writing would be similar in most respects
to the "A Glut Viewer" example program, with a few extensions.  First, I
will implement reading data from a file.  Also, I plan on using light
sources, shading and texture mapping in the final project.  The same
rotations and translations will also be implemented.  And, of course, it
will render the red-green aspects of the image.

	I feel that this is not only a do-able project, but one that has
many useful applications, in many differend fields of study.

Andrew Wiles