"Animated Bokeh" has been on my whiteboard for a long time, and this is the result.

I thought it would just be for cheesy novelty effects, but it also does lightfield manipulation that was cooler than I expected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE

I made a deliberate decision not to put Bad Apple or Doom on this, YouTube commenters be damned.

But I'm going to put Doom on it, aren't I?

@ancientjames

I have that same miniware hotplate love it.

@ancientjames

Putting this right on #fediTV

@ancientjames this is delightful

until the warning sign one which is viscerally low-key terrifying

@ancientjames are you kidding me? you invented a lytro lense by accident

@ancientjames @awilbert what an incredible breadth of skills you have! And the imagination (and fortitude!) to put them together this way! Just… wow!

@ancientjames this is so wild and exciting! 🤯

I couldn't imagine that creating an active lens mount adapter is within the skills of a single person. For sure it's far beyond my skills, even though I often wished I had a way to create an active adapter for my abandoned Samsung NX camera system.
@narthur

@ge0rg @ancientjames @narthur i dont even understand how it works. sunglass + lcd = transparent? but as soon you add a pixel, it is intransparent?

@utf_7 @ge0rg @ancientjames @narthur lcds require polarising filters to be able to see. Polarised light is interesting; it’s light with a grain. a filter that has opposite grain blocks the light. tilt it to match the grain it lets light through. the liquid crystal is like programmable polariser; you’re controlling the angle of the grain of the light passing through; not whether it gets blocked directly

@utf_7 @ge0rg @ancientjames @narthur a side effect is this could in theory be developed to a mode that automatically erases all reflections or deep atmospheric fog; (fog looks white cos it’s got chaotic grain. you can filter fog out with a polariser)