Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 7/23/01 11:08 PM, Mark Rabiner at mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com wrote: > Mxsmanic wrote: >> >> Mark Rabiner writes: >> >>> Why not the bokeh under the blur menu? >>> Plug in your parameters. >> >> It can't be done. Generating bokeh requires that you have depth information >> for >> every point in the image, as well as a specified focus distance, a focal >> length, >> and an aperture. Providing all of these would be very tedious indeed, >> especially the depth information, which would essentially have to be painted >> in >> by hand, probably as a mask. > > Sounds like an algorithm to me. no, he's totally right, Mark. You need to know how far a point is from you in the image to know how much to blur it. You don't have this information from a single image. If you shot stereo pairs you could triangulate it. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com ICQ: 109343205