> To quote the reply from kalast: What uses do you have in mind? > > -- > Dr. Lars Krueger
First of all thanks all for the great explanation. I just thought it was really cool to be able to change focus like that and found the idea that you could even change the point of view very interesting. I guess I would have to say that my use was purely artistically motivated; something I thought would be fun to play around with. My question was also just based on curiosity. I was thinking of making pictures or even films where the user could change the focus and decide themselves what was important in a picture. I could build a picture with many interesting elements at each depth. The idea of having built in 3d was also interesting. I see 3d as the wave of the future. There is even a hand held 3d game now that does not need glasses as well as many glasses based TVs and a big 3d film push. I suspect that a technology like this could really change the future of pictures and wondered if Blender will be ready for it or not or if I could maybe even play with it now. I think the key to plenoptics' future will be how open the patents are for the normal person to use the stuff. As for cameras, I have to say that 80% of my failed pictures are failures because of bad focus; the rest bad light or a missed shot. -- Douglas E Knapp Creative Commons Film Group, Helping people make open source movies with open source software! http://douglas.bespin.org/CommonsFilmGroup/phpBB3/index.php Massage in Gelsenkirchen-Buer: http://douglas.bespin.org/tcm/ztab1.htm Please link to me and trade links with me! Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project. http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page http://code.google.com/p/perspectiveproject/ _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers