1. Seeing around comers.
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Cartwright, Jon
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OPTICS , *IMAGE , *SHADES & shadows , *OPTICAL information processing , *PHOTONS - Abstract
The article offers information on defying the laws of optics to extract a blurry image of two people lurking around the corner. Topics discussed include discovering that the shadows are full of visual information that our eyes can't see, and computer scientist Ramesh Raskar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology knew that some of the photons fired by the laser would scatter off the wall, rebound off the manikin and then scatter off the wall again.
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- 2019
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