  Plenoptic cameras enable the capturing of spatial as well as angular color
information which can be used for various applications among which are image
refocusing and depth calculations. However, these cameras are expensive and
research in this area currently lacks data for ground truth comparisons. In
this work we describe a flexible, easy-to-use Blender model for the different
plenoptic camera types which is on the one hand able to provide the ground
truth data for research and on the other hand allows an inexpensive assessment
of the cameras usefulness for the desired applications. Furthermore we show
that the rendering results exhibit the same image degradation effects as real
cameras and make our simulation publicly available.
