Today I am at the International Conference on Computational Photography. Shree Nayar is giving an invited presentation on the Bigshot camera. The camera is a kind of “one laptop per child” for imaging. The idea of technology modules for instruction is very cool. The camera is kit so that kids need to learn the components and put them together.
30 March 2010
26 March 2010
25 March 2010
Gigapixel image display
Tor-Magne Stien Hagen, Daniel Stødle and Otto J. Anshus of the University of Tromsø in Norway have posted a video of interactive exploration of a 13 gigapixel image using a multitouch 22 megapixel wall.
23 March 2010
plastic lenses materials
Paradigm Optics maintains a list of interesting plastic optical materials.
New York Times weighs in on quantum dots
Sunday’s New York Times has a brief article on InVisage Technologies, which has produced a quantum dot enhanced FPA with improved low light sensitivity. Ken Salsman is dubious, as am I.
18 March 2010
US patent application 2005/0013017 illustrates an agressive even order aspheric compound lens design for microcameras with plastic lenses.
