Saturday, August 25, 2012

Engineers Build 50 Gigapixel Camera From 98 Mini Cameras

Engineers Build 50 Gigapixel Camera From 98 Mini Cameras!!

It sounds like the new 50 gigapixel camera from engineers at Duke University and the University of Arizona was a simple, intuitive, Lego-inspired idea: stack 98 cameras on top of each other to make one big camera.

That's the main idea, anyway. What's tough is taking the information from those 98 flashes and organizing it without the camera going up in smoke. That's why it uses about 3 percent of its hardware to do actual camera stuff, while the rest of it goes to wiring that takes the info and gets it to make sense.


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