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2 Jun 2024 03:08:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Calling the Doctor - nighttime - 16:9  
From: Kenneth
Date: 25 Sep 2017 04:20:00
Message: <web.59c8bb72f158f762883fb31c0@news.povray.org>
"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>
> I actually don't know if a POV-Ray lens-type object will cause 'blurring' the
> way a real lens does (which is a combination of the lens itself and the eye's
> inability to focus on the resulting 'aerial image.') I've never tried testing
> such a thing in POV-Ray. I *suspect* that its camera will always keep all rays
> sharply 'focused' (so to speak).

.....because the camera types (excluding focal-blur of course) are what might be
termed 'ideal pinhole cameras'. In photographic terms, that's like a lens with
an infinitely small aperture-- where *everything* is always in focus, no matter
how close or far away. Our eyes can't do that. :-(


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