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Is it possible to create a digital image that will appear 3D when viewed through the 3D polarized glasses?

The 3D polarized glasses I'm referring to are the type handed out at movie theaters for showing of films like Pixar's UP. Thanks for the answers. Those methods will create two images for stereoscopic viewing, will they not? What I would like to do is create one digital image that when viewed through the 3D polarized glasses as provided for the latest Pixar movie and others, will appear in 3D.

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1. yes but the easy way is to set up two cameras about 24 inches apart with the "same" lens and put the two prints next to each other.. then. cross your eyes to look at them.. 3D on the easy.
2. You need to have 2 simultaneous images taken a couple of inches apart, about the same spacing as our eyes. Its the slight difference in shooting angle between the pictures that give the 3D effect. The only time you put the cameras any further apart than this is when your photographing some far away and need to exaggerate the 3D effect. There are digital 3D cameras made usually by electronically linking two separate cameras so they sync as here. http://www.pokescope.com/cameras/ Chris
3. The easiest way is with stereo cameras and stereo viewers. It takes two frames about as far apart as the human eye and you put them in one of those pinwheel viewers.
4. Certainly there must be some way. But using standard products, no. The problem is you need to make one image in left-hand circularly polarized light and the other in right-hand circularly polarized light. Making circularly polarized light in the first place is not trivial. Doing it on two different image at the same time is quite a bit harder. In fact, the movie theaters don't even do that. What they do is alternate between the two images and polarizations at a very high rate, much faster than your eyes can 'see'. And they do this with a special projector projecting onto a special silver screen that maintains this polarization. So if you want to do this on paper, you will have no chance of doing it. If you try to do it with a LCD, you will have to buy or create a very specialized screen capable of making these polarizations (I doubt anyone makes that these days), or you will have to buy or build one of these specialized projectors and screens. If you care enough, I am sure it could be done, but it would be quite a project.