synthesis op• Data kinds: none → lightfield (an op determined by its arguments alone — it takes no image or data input)
• Call: import fullseye as fs; fs.ledger.lf_synthesize(slopes=(0.0,), angular=(5, 5), shape=(64, 64), *, occlusion=True, coverage=0.55, texture_sigma=2.0, interp='linear', edge='wrap', seed=0) (to call the implementation directly, import lightfield; lightfield.lf_synthesize(slopes=(0.0,), angular=(5, 5), shape=(64, 64), *, occlusion=True, coverage=0.55, texture_sigma=2.0, interp='linear', edge='wrap', seed=0); from the registry, opslightfield.get("lf_synthesize"))
• Return value through the ledger: fullseye.ledger.lf_synthesize(...) returns only the declared out type lightfield (the underlying function also returns auxiliary values). When you need what was dropped, use fullseye.ledger.lf_synthesize.raw(...) or call lightfield.lf_synthesize directly.
Build a light field of textured layers at known slopes (the test bed).
Each entry of *slopes* is one fronto-parallel layer, given as its slope s = dx/du in pixels of image shift per angular step; the layer's texture is band-limited noise (Gaussian-smoothed, texture_sigma px) and view (v, u) sees it displaced by (s*(v - v_c), s*(u - u_c)). Because the displacement is exactly linear in the angular index, every downstream answer is closed-form: the refocus sharpness peaks at s, the EPI lines have slope s, and the disparity between the extreme views is s * (U - 1).
*angular* is (V, U) and *shape* is (H, W).
With occlusion=True (default) the layers are composited front-to-back by |slope| (largest |s| = nearest = drawn last) through random binary masks covering roughly *coverage* of the frame, and the layer with the smallest |slope| is forced opaque as the background — regardless of its position in *slopes* (a tie goes to the earlier entry, the sort is stable). (0.0, 2.0) and (2.0, 0.0) therefore describe the same scene with the same slope_map; only the per-layer textures are drawn in a different order. That is what makes a see-through synthetic-aperture test meaningful. With occlusion=False the layers are averaged instead — a transparent superposition, which is the cleanest possible input for refocusing because each layer survives the average untouched.
Returns (light_field, slope_map): the (V, U, H, W) array and the (H, W) map of the front-most layer's slope at each pixel — the ground truth for lf_depth_from_focus and lf_epi_slope. The map is in centre-view coordinates (the masks are stated unshifted, and the centre view is the one view whose shift is zero), which is also the frame a refocused image lands in. With occlusion=False the light field also contains the *other* layers at every pixel, so a depth estimator will legitimately disagree with the map wherever layers overlap; the single-layer case is unambiguous and is what the exactness tests use.
edge="wrap" (default) makes the scene periodic so an integer slope is a pure np.roll and the whole pipeline is bit-exact end to end (measured round-trip error 5.6e-16); edge="nearest" reproduces a real camera's border clamping.
Raises ValueError: an empty or over-long *slopes* list (MAX_LAYERS), a non-finite or over-large slope (MAX_ABS_SLOPE), an angular or spatial shape outside [1, MAX_ANGULAR] / [1, MAX_SPATIAL], a total size over MAX_LF_ELEMENTS, *coverage* outside (0, 1], a *texture_sigma* so large the smoothed texture's dynamic range falls below MIN_TEXTURE_RANGE, and an unknown *interp* / *edge*.
• lightfield_depth family guide
• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).
• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.
• The canonical algorithm (author, year) and its uses are named in the family usage guide above.
• lightfield_depth — py -3.11 examples/lightfield_depth.py
• poc_compound_eye — py -3.11 examples/poc_compound_eye.py
lightfield as input)lf_to_mla · lf_stats · lf_subaperture · lf_center_view · lf_views · lf_epi · lf_refocus · lf_focal_stack
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