Method and system for creating anaglyphs

A method in digital stereo camera for creating anaglyphs of a given subject with a pre-set stereoscopic distance (Sd);

• a pre-set distance (D) between an scene plane and a lens plane defined by pair of first and second lenses align on along a plane;
• and a pre-set distance (p) between the lens plane and an image plane of the camera, the camera having a pair of imagers coupled to the pair of lenses, the method comprising the steps of:
• producing a pair of stereo images each having three color channels;
• cropping each of the pair of images by an amount (b), where b=Sd*(p/D);
• and
• combining one color channel from one of the pair of stereo images image with two color channels from a second of the pair of stereo images, so that the resulting image comprises three orthogonal color channels.

A computer readable medium containing programming instructions in digital stereo camera for creating anaglyphs of a given subject with a pre-set stereoscopic distance (Sd);

• a pre-set distance (D) between an scene plane and a lens plane defined by pair of first and second lenses aligned on along a plane;
• and a pre-set distance (p) between the lens plane and an image plane of the camera, the camera having a pair of imagers coupled to the pair of lenses, the programming instructions comprising of:
• producing a pair of stereo images each having three color channels;
• a cropping each of the pair of images by an amount (b), where b=Sd*(p/D);
• and
• combining one color channel from one of the pair of stereo images image with two color channels from a second of the pair of stereo images, so that the resulting image comprises three orthogonal color channels.