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		darkmighty on April 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app It looks like this isn't creating a synthetic aperture, it's just creating a depth map and applying a depth-dependent blur to a single frame.

mark-r on April 16, 2014 [–]

According to the text the blur itself is simulating an actual lens. Without seeing the exact algorithm it's hard to know how accurate that claim is. There are many ways to do a blur and I know what I'd use if I were trying to generate good bokeh.

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