I increasingly view resolution issues as an unhealthy attachment to
reality.  ;-)  Be sure to give us a report when you get back.

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:41 PM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This is the sort of application that maps very nicely to the
> massively multi-parallel GPUs in current-generation graphics
> chips.  At present I think the limiting factor is resolution;
> you only get so many sampling points, and you have to decide
> how to assign them to wavelength, direction, sensitivity, ...
>
> Or, at least, that is my current understanding.  I'll probably
> know a little more after next Thursday :-)
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:10:38PM -0400, Steven Desjardins wrote:
>> The possibilities get interesting  if you begin to consider what would
>> be possible with an arbitrarily powerful computer controlling the
>> body.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:56 AM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > The next meeting of the Silicon Valley SIGGRAPH chapter may be
>> > of interest to Bay Area photographers. ?The talk is entitled
>> > "The Camera of the Future", and will discuss (and demonstrate)
>> > images captured at more than just a single viewpoint, single
>> > plane of focus.
>> >
>> > See <http://silicon-valley.siggraph.org/next.html> for details.
>> >
>> > Meetings are open to non-members (I believe a fee of $5 is charged).
>> >
>> >
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