Multi‐planar plenoptic displays |
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Authors: | Nicola Ranieri Simon Heinzle Peter Barnum Wojciech Matusik Markus Gross |
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Affiliation: | 1. Computer Graphics Laboratory, ETH Zürich, , Zürich, Switzerland;2. Disney Research Zürich, , Zürich, Switzerland;3. CSAIL, MIT, , Cambridge, MA, USA |
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Abstract: | Multi‐planar plenoptic displays consist of multiple spatially varying light‐emitting and light‐modulating planes. In this work, we introduce a framework to display light field data on this new type of display device. First, we present a mathematical notation that describes each of the layers in terms of the corresponding light transport operators. Next, we explain an algorithm that renders a light field with depth into a given multi‐planar plenoptic display and analyze the approximation error. We show two different physical prototypes that we have designed and built: The first design uses a dynamic parallax barrier and a number of bi‐state (translucent/opaque) screens. The second design uses a beam splitter to co‐locate two pairs of parallax barriers and static image projection screens. We evaluate both designs on a number of different 3D scenes. Finally, we present simulated and real results for different display configurations. |
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Keywords: | multi‐planar plenoptic display light field decomposition |
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