New 3-D Camera Will Have 12,616 Lenses

March 22nd, 2008

W-W-Whaaaaat? (You ever watch cartoons and find it funny when they say What like this? I do…lol)

Take a look at this camera:

3-D camera 12,616
Image from Science Daily

The Science Daily article is pretty interesting actually if you have never sat back and considered the technology behind a camera.

Your typical camera has one lens. One. It is a 2-D image that shows up as a flat picture you pass around for everyone to see, or share on usb flash drives on your computer so that you can spam e-mail everyone you know. Eventually finding that they photo shopped your photos, pasted them all over the internet with you in sexual poses, and ummm…sorry.

Anyways, this particular camera is of the 3-D variety, and was created for the heck of saying you can basically, but they do have ideas for some great uses for it: biological imaging, 3-D printing, creation of 3-D objects or people to inhabit virtual worlds (good grief…losers *cough*), or 3-D modeling of buildings.

Interactive virtual porn maybe? Surely this is a need.

Let’s look at some snippets on how it works a bit.

The main lens (also known as the objective lens) of an ordinary digital camera focuses its image directly on the camera’s image sensor, which records the photo. The objective lens of the multi-aperture camera, on the other hand, focuses its image about 40 microns (a micron is a millionth of a meter) above the image sensor arrays. As a result, any point in the photo is captured by at least four of the chip’s mini-cameras, producing overlapping views, each from a slightly different perspective, just as the left eye of a human sees things differently than the right eye.

Take a look at the rest of the article to see more in depth of Full detail on how it works. I don’t necessarily want to re-write it, or copy it all now do I?