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by catbird 3886 days ago
Well, the raw picture (light field) from the camera looks like something from an insect's eye - a hexagonal grid of tiny pictures saved into one giant jpeg [1]. The Lytro software processes that data into a stack of jpegs of reconstructed views at varying focal lengths when you first import the image.

[1] see for example http://lightfield-forum.com/2012/07/lytro-hack-how-to-extrac...