On 6/22/2011 6:42 PM, Chambers wrote:
> Forget focal blur.  I'd like POV to output files in this thing's format.
>
>
http://www.digitaltrends.com/photography/lytro-the-camera-that-could-change-photography-forever/
>
> By capturing more information from the scene, pictures taken with a Lytro camera
> allow you to adjust the focus after the picture has been taken.  The bottom of
> the page linked above has some picttures you can try it out yourself with.
>
> While I'm certain the above pictures were cherry picked to show this capability
> in its best light, I'm very excited about seeing how it works once consumer
> models ship.
>

Note that if this camera uses techniques anything like what's been 
around in the graphics research community for a while now, you'll pay a 
hefty price in terms of lower resolution for the ability to change focus 
after the fact.  Given that current cameras are beginning to capture 
images in much higher resolution than most people view them maybe this 
is an okay tradeoff.  The hype in the linked article is a bit over the 
top though IMHO.

Also, it shouldn't be too hard at all to get povray to output into a 
format you can do this with, although writing the viewer would probably 
be a tad trickier (but still probably not too hard, although it's been a 
while since I've looked at this sort of stuff).

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