Plenoptic Function Sensing Hacks

After seeing what's in the animal world (Thanks Lauren and Arthropoda) or potentially humans, 

and reading Compressive Sensing of  High-Dimensional Visual Signals  by Aswin Sankaranarayanan, I could not stop thinking that there are several ways to sample the plenotpic function and that in some way, they are all ... hacks.

It's been a while since I have done this but let me list some other potential hacks.sensing mechanisms that cross my radar screen recently. Let us note that today's entry mixes hacks sensors and multiplexers at different levels of  Technology Readiness Levels.scale.

• Flat Lenses that are nanodesigned. see [1]. some simple explanations are given here.

• New Dark Matter Detectors using DNA for Nanometer Tracking are also simply explained in the WP.
• Raytrix Presentation at VISION 2012 Show (Thanks Vladimir)
• Genpla 3D Camera and Gesture Recognition (Thanks Vladimir)
• Phonescope3D, an attachment to the iPhone that can provide scans and directly feed them into Sketchfab, a cloud based solution to store 3D maps.(This is a Kickstarte project)
• StickNFind- a Bluetooth Powered ultra small Location Stickers (an Indigogog project)
• WiFi signal strength filmed with a camera and a large LED stick

[1] Aberration-Free Ultrathin Flat Lenses and Axicons at Telecom Wavelengths Based on Plasmonic Metasurfaces by Francesco Aieta, Patrice Genevet, Mikhail A. Kats, Nanfang Yu, Romain Blanchard, Zeno Gaburro, and Federico Capasso (other relevant papers can be found  here) [2] New Dark Matter Detectors using DNA for Nanometer Tracking by Andrzej Drukier, Katherine Freese, David Spergel, Charles Cantor, George Church, Takeshi Sano





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