GENERATION AND USE OF A 3D RADON IMAGE

Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for efficiently recording captured plenoptic image data and for rendering images from the captured plenoptic data. The plenoptic image data can be captured by a plenoptic or other light field camera. In some implementations, four dimensional radiance data can be transformed into three dimensional data by performing a Radon transform to define the image by planes instead of rays. A resulting Radon image can represent the summed values of energy over each plane. The original three-dimensional luminous density of the scene can be recovered, for example, by performing an inverse Radon transform. Images from different views and/or having different focus can be rendered from the luminous density.