Light Field Authoring?

[dulbrich]

The fluence plugin can read the .lf file, but does the fluence plugin offer any functionality for the creation of these .lf files for display?

In the article Experimenting with Light Fields google says "They’re aligned and compressed in a custom dataset file that’s read by special rendering software we’ve implemented as a plug-in for the Unity game engine." I assume they are talking about the .lf files and the fluence plugin. I'm just itching to build my own camera rig so I can start creating my own light fields.

[andybak]

I'd love to know this also.

Is there any info on what Fluence actually is? I'm guessing it's a closed-source internal Google thing at this stage?

[PeturDarri]

As far as I know, the tools to create lightfields in the .lf format is not public yet.
If you're interested in the data format and how Fluence parses and renders it, there's a pretty in-depth talk about it from the team behind it at SIGGRAPH 2018

EDIT: Forgot to include the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpu4GJZLXEw

[bnschwrtz]

I would also love to build a rig and render out light fields. Strange that this project seems to have gone silent over at Google. Did you ever do this @dulbrich or @andybak?