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[Alexander Ewering]

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Michael Crawford wrote:

> The defocus effect is great but the little locator makes it difficult to see 
> exactly where the focal plane is unless the object you want in focus is in 
> the exact middle of the screen.

On the whole, it would be an incredible plus if this node supported
Autofocus - like in good ol' instinctive-blender 1. Short outline:

The camera gets 2 new properties, focusx and focusy, ranging from 0-1 each,
where 0.5 is the middle of the FOV. The node then takes the z value of the
rendered pixel at the focusx/focusy location, and uses that.

instinctive-blender 1 also had focus motor lag, where the camera would lag
behind focal plane changes. Also very useful for avoiding 'focus jitter'.

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