More info on light fields
If you’re interested to read more:
The plenoptic function
•Original reference:  E. Adelson and J. Bergen, "The Plenoptic Function and the Elements of Early Vision," in M. Landy and J. A. Movshon, (eds) Computational Models of Visual Processing, MIT Press 1991.
•L. McMillan and G. Bishop, “Plenoptic Modeling: An Image-Based Rendering System”, Proc. SIGGRAPH, 1995, pp. 39-46.
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The light field
•M. Levoy and P. Hanrahan, “Light Field Rendering”, Proc SIGGRAPH 96, pp. 31-42.
•S. J. Gortler, R. Grzeszczuk, R. Szeliski, and M. F. Cohen, "The lumigraph," in Proc. SIGGRAPH, 1996, pp. 43-54.
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