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traveling in every direction through every point in space. Michael Faraday
was the first to propose (in an 1846 lecture entitled "Thoughts on Ray Vibrations") that light should be interpreted as a field, much like the
magnetic fields on which he had been working for several years. The phrase
''light field'' was coined by Arun Gershun in a classic paper on the
radiometric properties of light in three-dimensional space (1936). The phrase
has been redefined by researchers in Computer Graphics to mean something
slightly different. To understand this difference, we'll need a bit of
terminology.


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