[Bf-committers] DOF camera parameters.

[Jonathan Merritt]

Hi Alexander,

Indeed, both circumscribing the circle-of-confusion and z-blur are both 
hacks...

In the z-blur method, hiding has already been done prior to calculation 
of blur.  The advantage that the CoC method has is that hiding is *not* 
done prior to calculation of the blur.  Hence, objects with a large 
circle-of-confusion can blur out from "behind" objects that would 
otherwise hide them (which happens in reality due to the fact that the 
lens and aperture of a real camera have a non-infinitesimal width).  
However, even the CoC method (as described) is still a hack, since the 
inside of the circle of confusion is not sampled.

Shouldn't z-blur be possible as a filtering process (provided you can 
access depth information for each pixel)?

Jonathan Merritt.

>Uhm, well, if people are now going _such_ hackish ways (motion
>blur and rotating the camera around a point), I wouldn't understand
>why my (already perfectly working and in-every-day-production-use)
>zblur-based DOF system has been refused :-)
>
>For further reference, see:
>
>http://blender.instinctive.de/downloads/demo_dof/
>
>Also, the source code to instinctive-blender is at your service,
>of course... but be sure to give me some credit at least
>for the autofocus stuff :-)
>
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