"Samuel Benge" <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> "Trevor G Quayle" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> >
> That brushed metal finish on the lens housing looks great, how was it made?

Just micro-normal approach with heavy focal blur AA.  The normals are biased to
get the directional effects (e.g. circular normals for the radial).

The more I think of it, the more I imagine this would be done much more
efficiently internally where normals gould be averaged much more smoothly.


> This reminds me of a recent Wired article:
> http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/07/ff_daguerrotype_panorama/ A very
> interesting read: it really makes me wish I could get a hold of some hi-res
> daguerreotype scans just to gaze at.

This is really cool stuff.  Thanks for sharing it.

-tgq

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