Yesterday was a packed day at ICCP 2011. Illah Nourbakhsh started out the day with an amazing talk on Gigapan imaging. The philosophical breakthrough he made was to contrast a gigapixel image to a real image.
If you view a gigapixel image you cannot see the "whole" picture, since the resolution is huge (unlike a snap of a family picnic). You have to zoom in and explore the image. Now imagine the image is of some place you haven't ever been to, lets say Mars. So now when you zoom in, Illah says that you are exploring that place, not just viewing a picture.
The optics session that followed was pretty amazing too. Oliver Cossairt had a great talk on the new gigapixel camera from Shree Nayar's lab. The final presentation in this session was Hand-Held Schlieren Photography with Light Field Probes, which won the best paper award at ICCP.
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