On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Lars Krueger <[email protected]> wrote: > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- >> Datum: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:08:39 +0200 >> Von: Knapp <[email protected]> >> An: bf-blender developers <[email protected]> >> Betreff: Re: [Bf-committers] A new photo format > >> Many times while reading these sites I have seen them mention 3d but I >> do see your point. On the other hand might these cameras be really >> good for making bump/ normal/ displacement maps of surfaces? > > For that, conventionally you'd need high-res 3d info. I'm not sure if a > normal map can be obtained using e.g. shape-from-shading methods exploiting > the different view directions. > >> One question I have is, if the 3d info in not there then how can they >> change the focus depth? It would seem to me that you could make a 3d >> image out of it just by plotting the points that are in focus as you >> go from near focus to far focus. Perhaps this is just a failure on my >> part to understand the math. > > Check http://eces.colorado.edu/~pavani/Plenoptic.pdf, Slide 8. No 3D required. > > -- > Dr. Lars Krueger
OK, but slide number 7 is doing what I said, making a bump map (3d depth info) out of the picture. I think it would be good for taking 3d pictures of textures and importing them into blender. -- 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 [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
