Appendix CScreen Resolution and Divergence
Screen Resolution and Divergence
When using pixels to measure parallax you must know the screen size and resolution.
A 2K digital projector in movie theatres has the ability to project an image that is 2,048 pixels wide and 1,080 pixels high, or an aspect ratio of 1.89. But no digital cinema distributor provides a movie in that aspect ratio. The two commercial aspect ratios in use today are 1.85 and 2.40.
The 1.85 aspect ratio uses a 1998 × 1080 area of the projector’s chip (with a tiny amount of ...
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