Damn this is cool, pretty unreliable though right now.
[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66823000/jpg/_66823264_66823263.jpg[/img]
Accurate to one millimetre
[QUOTE=CoolCorky;40218042]Accurate to one millimetre[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]but is unable to detect human skin.[/QUOTE]
Sometimes reading the article is a good idea.
Pretty awesome, especially if it's able to be done from 10 km away. You could cover massive areas with one camera.
I wonder how they encode the data, 1km = 1,000m = 1,000,000mm, that's a lot of possible values for each point...
On second thought, if it doesn't encode colour, just distance, then that's less possible values then colours...
Cool, I hope they can use this to make a camera which records video with z-depth.
[QUOTE=RoboChimp;40218583]Cool, I hope they can use this to make a camera which records video with z-depth.[/QUOTE]Finally we can apply dof in post haha
This is like a wiremod ranger-based camera in GMod :v:
Isn't this what that Lytro camera does?
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[url]https://www.lytro.com/camera#perspective_shift[/url]
[QUOTE=itisjuly;40218608]Finally we can apply dof in post haha[/QUOTE]
And fog effects!
And volumetric light ray effects!
[QUOTE=Scot;40218905]Isn't this what that Lytro camera does?
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[url]https://www.lytro.com/camera#perspective_shift[/url][/QUOTE]
As far as I understand the Lytro just takes a bunch of images of different focus at once and sort of mashes them together.
[QUOTE=Scot;40218905]Isn't this what that Lytro camera does?
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[url]https://www.lytro.com/camera#perspective_shift[/url][/QUOTE]
that camera is a 4d lightfield camera. which has a lends over each camera pixel and then transforms the data using such algorithms as a Fourier splice transformation into spliced 2d images.
It has potential for representing the data in 3D, I would like it in a point could, but it's closed source.
In no way does it use lasers.
I'm getting tired of this ~~~3D~~ fad... last year it was all about ~~~~3D TELEVISION~~~ and look where that went.
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;40219390]I'm getting tired of this ~~~3D~~ fad... last year it was all about ~~~~3D TELEVISION~~~ and look where that went.[/QUOTE]
Yeah they're very popular.
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;40219390]I'm getting tired of this ~~~3D~~ fad... last year it was all about ~~~~3D TELEVISION~~~ and look where that went.[/QUOTE]
This really isn't even close to the same thing though. There are already cameras which can take photos that give an illusion of depth when viewed in a certain way. This is a camera which can detect depth and threedimensional surfaces. Huge difference
The 3D TV "fad" is actually a good thing because it means almost all TVs are produced with 120Hz (or whatever it is) displays.
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