1. A method for capturing and rendering an object on a multi-focal display, the method comprising: acquiring a set of at least two images of an object at different acquisition settings; for at least one of the images, determining the acquisition setting for the image based at least in part on content of previously acquired images and also at least in part on reconstruction of the object on a multi-focal display that renders objects at a plurality of renderable volumes, wherein determining the acquisition setting for the image is based on optimizing a metric that is a function of both the acquisition settings and of locations of the renderable volumes of the multi-focal display, by iteratively: optimizing the metric as a function of the acquisition settings while holding constant the locations of the renderable volumes of the multi-focal display; and optimizing the metric as a function of the locations of the renderable volumes of the multi-focal display while holding constant the acquisition settings; and rendering the object on the multi-focal display from the acquired set of images of the object.