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A Single Pixel Camera
BuzzSkyline writes "Scientists at Rice University have developed a one pixel camera. Instead of recording an image point by point, it records the brightness of the light reflected from an array of movable micromirrors. Each configuration of the mirrors encodes some information about the scene, which the pixel collects as a single number. The camera produces a picture by psuedorandomly switching the mirrors and measuring the result several thousand times. Unlike megapixel cameras that record millions of pieces of data and then compress the information to keep file sizes down, the single pixel camera compresses the data first and records only the compact information. The experimental version is slow and the image quality is rough, but the technique may lead to single-pixel cameras that use detectors that can collect images outside the visible range, multi-pixel cameras that get by with much smaller imaging arrays, or possibly even megapixel cameras that provide gigapixel resolution. The researchers described their research on October 11 at the Optical Society of America's Frontiers in Optics meeting in Rochester, NY."
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Scientists at Rice University have developed a one pixel camera.
The camera's one pixel, but when you print it out full size, you get a mega pixel.
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Sure it's expensiverest at the moment. But with economisationalisation from upscalifying the process you could see it cheapifying quickly.
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One pixel should be enough for anybody.
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I'm trying to take apicture one pixel at a time!
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can't wait for the first four pixel camera. Imagine the resolution of that one! ;-P
Lock ten marketdroids in a room and give them a task to try and create a marketing campaign for something impossible and ridiculous. Like a one-pixel digital camera.
I'm envisioning a sticker on the box that reads "THE ONLY MICRO-MEGAPIXEL CAMERA!"
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Even those seemingly magic DLP mirrors couldn't possibly be faster.
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...but it'd suck to have a dead pixel.
The spammers have had these cameras for a long time. They're always emailing me the pictures they took with them.
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Even better, use your scanner as a camera:h tml
http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/text-demo-scanner-cam.
Should give you an idea of how to do it yourself to get gigapixel sized pictures.
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About five pixels? :P
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