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## Bead documents - there-is-no-goat (There Is No Goat) · [source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/e5ef0ead-c295-45f3-ae1c-68380ed6a69f/README.md)
## 2026-07-08 **Chats (verbatim ground truth)** - Chat: There Is No Goat (There Is No Goat) · [source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/e5ef0ead-c295-45f3-ae1c-68380ed6a69f/2026-07-08/chats/2026-07-08-there-is-no-goat.md) **Notes (working concepts)** - There is no goat: light-field samples against the reified model (There Is No Goat) · [source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/e5ef0ead-c295-45f3-ae1c-68380ed6a69f/2026-07-08/notes/00-there-is-no-goat-frame.md) - Talk: the plenoptic function, and why 5D collapses to 4D (There Is No Goat) · [source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/e5ef0ead-c295-45f3-ae1c-68380ed6a69f/2026-07-08/notes/01-talk-plenoptic-function-5d-to-4d.md) - Talk: the goat argument, holographic light fields, and where volumetric fails (There Is No Goat) · [source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/e5ef0ead-c295-45f3-ae1c-68380ed6a69f/2026-07-08/notes/02-talk-goat-hologram-volumetric-failure.md) - Talk: cameras as light-field samplers, and the structure that falls between them (There Is No Goat) · [source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/e5ef0ead-c295-45f3-ae1c-68380ed6a69f/2026-07-08/notes/03-talk-cameras-as-samplers-and-array-gaps.md) - Talk: history of the idea, Lippmann's embedding, and what Lytro actually does (There Is No Goat) · [source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/e5ef0ead-c295-45f3-ae1c-68380ed6a69f/2026-07-08/notes/04-talk-history-lippmann-embedding-lytro.md) - Talk: the data problem, radical compressibility, optics, and the open format question (There Is No Goat) · [source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/e5ef0ead-c295-45f3-ae1c-68380ed6a69f/2026-07-08/notes/05-talk-data-compression-optics-open-questions.md)