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From: Mike Raiford
Subject: Focal Blur: Accuracy in reflection and refraction
Date: 12 Nov 2004 10:15:57
Message: <4194d3ad@news.povray.org>
I'm rendering a scene right now that involves a sphere, reflection, and 
focal blur. (Desktop image -- may post in PBI if wanted, its similar to 
a previous RSOCP image...)

It appears (unexpectedly) that the reflected scene in the sphere has a 
greater DOF than does the actual scene behind the sphere. Is this 
similar to some physical phenomenon? (I don't have a reflective sphere 
to see for myself) or is it just an artefact of the focal blur algorithm?

I'm curious to see if placing a lens in front of a camera that has focal 
blur turned on changes the focus of the scene behind the lens, but I 
haven't gotten to that experiment, yet.

-- 
~Mike


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From: Rafal 'Raf256' Maj
Subject: Re: Focal Blur: Accuracy in reflection and refraction
Date: 12 Nov 2004 15:07:08
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> It appears (unexpectedly) that the reflected scene in the sphere has a 
> greater DOF than does the actual scene behind the sphere. Is this 
> similar to some physical phenomenon? (I don't have a reflective sphere 
> to see for myself) or is it just an artefact of the focal blur algorithm?

I think that this is very correnct (and can not be achived using faked-
postprocessed-DOF-blur). 

The distance camera-->mirror----->object is probably longer then 
camera-->objects directly, there fore object is further away in optical 
sense, and should be more blurred.

-- 
http://www.raf256.com/3d/
Rafal Maj 'Raf256', home page - http://www.raf256.com/me/
Computer Graphics


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From: Stephen McAvoy
Subject: Re: Focal Blur: Accuracy in reflection and refraction
Date: 12 Nov 2004 15:14:32
Message: <gc6ap0h7251ch5j973943vq5kshsvtlsia@4ax.com>
On 12 Nov 2004 15:07:08 -0500, "Rafal 'Raf256' Maj" <spa### [at] raf256com>
wrote:

>The distance camera-->mirror----->object is probably longer then 
>camera-->objects directly, there fore object is further away in optical 
>sense, and should be more blurred.

And remember Mike, that when you look at an object in a mirror your
eye automatically refocuses.


Regards
        Stephen


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