Re: [Gimp-user] Light Field Camera

[Johan Vromans <jvromans squirrel nl>]

Noel Stoutenburg <mjolnir ticnet com> writes:

> ... the camera capturing
> "all the light from the scene", when in fact, the camera is only
> capturing the light from the scene that enters the camera, just like a
> more conventional digital camera. In the end there will still be an
> image that can be manipulated,

If I have understood it correctly, the camera does not merely capture
the pixels (colour value) but alse the direction where the light came
from. This would add a dimension (in the fysical sense) to the
information. Think of it as photo-editing becoming 3-dimensional.

-- Johan