Collimated View Multiplexing: A New Approach To 3-D

This paper outlines the development of a new method of 3-D imaging based on spatial image decomposition by ray direction. Various implementations of actual systems and future possibilities will be discussed, including full color auto-stereoscopic video and synthetic holography of real and computer generated objects. Practical and theoretical limitations will be addressed, as well as bandwidth limitations and redundancy. The adaptation of standard methods of bandwidth reduction by adaptive image coding and processing will be considered. The integration of the new technology with computer graphics and holography will also be examined within the context of a "window" theory of spatial imaging.