Life in Lytros

From the day I first heard of the light field camera concept, I was waiting for my digital camera to have one... Well, it's still not for today.
Lytro brand out a very nice camera in 2011, and I was amazed by the results it got: living pictures, focusing afterward wherever you want.
Looks like the animated pictures in Harry Potter's movies, isn't it ?
Now the problem is that it's quite expensive for such a tiny toy, and the resolution is still too low for me to buy one.

But still, I wanted to play with such interactive pictures of my own...
So... I got the idea to take my own camera, my manual and wide opening lens, and to combine it with the capabilities of modern Internet Browser...
That's all you need to create your own interactive picture !

Well, here is my first attempt :

(click on parts of the picture to focus on it)
0, 438, 800, 600 0, 0, 294, 438 294, 0, 800, 438 0, 155, 150, 505 642, 268, 800, 329 619, 329, 800, 418 570, 418, 800, 453 500, 453, 800, 500 470, 276, 512, 346 425, 346, 531, 425 340, 425, 565, 453 262, 330, 388, 425 262, 425, 340, 453

570, 230, 800, 600 0, 0, 800, 200 0, 200, 800, 330 0, 330, 800, 600 0, 0, 100, 309 220, 118, 323, 236 317, 134, 352, 206 99, 147, 222, 235 113, 76, 188, 150 567, 130, 590, 190 555, 161, 583, 232 509, 179, 594, 226 539, 205, 565, 251 376, 179, 425, 195 360, 191, 491, 205 353, 206, 500, 329 337, 214, 364, 264 307, 241, 332, 265 500, 207, 536, 282 417, 329, 507, 368 199, 227, 234, 242 134, 241, 259, 249 113, 249, 334, 384 40, 356, 202, 479 17, 388, 192, 432 0, 434, 50, 600 23, 414, 139, 545 159, 430, 248, 494 88, 284, 108, 351 62, 332, 101, 359 640, 228, 720, 263 628, 262, 738, 279 574, 278, 755, 390 592, 388, 737, 420 612, 420, 742, 543 576, 457, 613, 505 603, 465, 800, 540 641, 540, 800, 570 639, 570, 800, 600
thanks to Yannick and Nicolas for their precious help
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Pour faire le même effet, n'hésitez pas à aller lire le tutorial que j'ai écrit sur le site de phototrend: http://phototrend.fr/2012/03/mp-101-fabriquer-son-propre-effet-lytro-sans-se-ruiner

5 commentaires:

philip williamson a dit…

That is very very cool.

29 février 2012 à 04:10
Anonyme a dit…

It works perfectly with IE9, why do you say that it doesn't work ?

8 mars 2012 à 11:43
Unknown a dit…

Didn't worked on my previous test, seems to work now ;)

8 mars 2012 à 21:02
Unknown a dit…

it is so cool. i am wonder what kind of this photography called. how did you make this effect? i am interested to create one. :)

8 mars 2012 à 22:22
Unknown a dit…

Hi Andrew, thanks for your comment ;)
For now, I just call them "interactive pictures". I'm currently writing a tutorial on how to create your own.
Stay tunned, and you'll get all the keys ;)

(you can follow me on @grandYann to get the news)

8 mars 2012 à 22:28

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