[HN Gopher] Extreme depth-of-field light field camera thanks to ... ___________________________________________________________________ Extreme depth-of-field light field camera thanks to an extinct marine arthropod Author : giuliomagnifico Score : 33 points Date : 2022-05-05 08:30 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (image-sensors-world.blogspot.com) (TXT) w3m dump (image-sensors-world.blogspot.com) | withinboredom wrote: | Even after reading Wikipedia, I'm not sure I understand what a | light field is. But this looks pretty interesting. | lazide wrote: | You can think of a normal lense like an extremely specific | filter. It ensures light from a specific direction, and that | direction only, arrives at the sensor. Some also ensure only | light oscillating in a specific way goes through | (polarization), or of a specific frequency (with color | filters). | | This filtering is necessary for us to produce useful data from | the total chaos that is the actual light field - aka all the | light bouncing and going in all directions at once - where 'us' | are our normal human brains. | | Other ways of handling it though if you can use different types | of information processing. | zasdffaa wrote: | "extinct marine arthropod" = trilobite | | Why use one word when you can use 3 with less precision? | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-05-07 23:00 UTC)