{"id":5752,"date":"2017-08-05T08:25:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T15:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=5752"},"modified":"2017-08-04T06:27:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T13:27:40","slug":"new-computational-zoom-tech-creates-impossible-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/05\/new-computational-zoom-tech-creates-impossible-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"New &#8220;Computational Zoom&#8221; tech creates impossible perspectives."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa. <a href=\"http:\/\/cvc.ucsb.edu\/graphics\/Papers\/SIGGRAPH2017_ComputationalZoom\/\">This new technique<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0researchers at NVIDIA and UCSB can mix wide-angle and telephoto perspective into single frames. As PetaPixel <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2017\/08\/03\/computational-zoom-lets-remix-focal-lengths-impossible-photos\/?mc_cid=5804800d32&amp;mc_eid=53d8d48922\">explains<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>First, you need to shoot a \u201cstack\u201d of photos with a fixed focal length. Starting from a distance, you move closer to your subject with each new shot. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The framework allows you to split up a scene based on depth, and assign a different focal length perspective to each of those depths. You can make the foreground look like it was shot with a telephoto lens and the background look like you used a wide-angle one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch it in action (and skip ahead ~2 minutes to get to the wow stuff):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NPxhBvPAdsI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/NewImage-5.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NPxhBvPAdsI\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa. This new technique\u00a0from\u00a0researchers at NVIDIA and UCSB can mix wide-angle and telephoto perspective into single frames. As PetaPixel explains, First, you need to shoot a \u201cstack\u201d of photos with a fixed focal length. Starting from a distance, you move closer to your subject with each new shot. [\u2026] The framework allows you to split [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5754,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions\/5754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}