depthy

Extract depth map and original from photos made with Google Camera's Lens Blur.

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What it is

Extract depth map and original from photos made with Google Camera's Lens Blur.

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arscan·Apr 22, 2014

It might be helpful to separate the code that creates the parallax effect from the angular app that displays the website & examples. This is a really cool trick and it would be nice to be able to easily reuse it. For those looking, it seems like the "magic" happens in a couple of spots (I think): https://github.com/panrafal/depthy/blob/master/app/scripts/p... and in https://github.com/panrafal/depthy/blob/master/app/scripts/c...

In Parallax effect from Google Lens Blur photos

bergie·Apr 22, 2014

Source code: https://github.com/panrafal/depthy

In Parallax effect from Google Lens Blur photos

panrafal·Apr 21, 2014

I've created a parallax viewer for lens blur photos. It's an open source web app available at http://depthy.stamina.pl/ . It lets you extract the depthmap, works on chrome with webgl and looks pretty awesome on some photos. There is quite a few things you can do with this kind of images, so feel free to play around with the source code on github https://github.com/panrafal/depthy

In Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app