Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely:  analyze the modulation of a light field via non-refracting attenuators. In the most general case, any desired modulation can be achieved with attenuators having four degrees of freedom in ray-space.  motivate the discussion with a universal 4D ray modulator (ray-filter) which can attenuate the intensity of each ray independently.  describe operation of such a fantasy ray-filter in the context of altering the 4D light field incident on a 2D camera sensor. Ray-filters are difficult to realize in practice but  can achieve reversible encoding for light field capture using patterned attenuating mask. Two mask-based designs are analyzed in this framework. The first design closely mimics the angle-dependent ray-sorting possible with the ray filter. The second design exploits frequency-domain modulation to achieve a more efficient encoding.  extend these designs for optimal sampling of light field by matching the modulation function to the specific shape of the band-limit frequency transform of light field.  also show how a hand-held version of an attenuator based light field camera can be built using a medium-format digital camera and an inexpensive mask.
['Ashok Veeraraghavan', 'Amit K. Agrawal', 'Ramesh Raskar', 'Ankit Mohan', 'Jack Tumblin']
I am writing a research paper on a idea Non-refractive modulators for encoding and capturing scene appearance and depth
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