Ramesh Raskar Explains Femto Photography

 Photography

Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday be used to build cameras that can look “around” corners or see inside the body without X-rays.

Late last year, MIT researchers unveiled their super camera, able to record slow motion video slow enough to capture the movement of photons in space.

Ramesh Raskar and his team at the Media Lab developed a new type of imaging so fast it shows the world one trillion frames per second.  This capability is so detailed it shows light itself in motion.

This technology may someday be used to build cameras that can look "around" corners or see inside the body without X-rays or even record chemical reactions as they take place.

According to Michio Kaku, the timescale of the brain is based on chemical reactions, so the super camera allows us to see the universe very differently in terms of time scale - so different it is beyond human comprehension.

Now, Raskar presents in a TED Talk a description of  femto-photography to help resolve the comprehension issues we face.  . —




SOURCE  TED

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