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		colincsl on March 21, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A camera that can see around corners Is this really much different than current time-of-flight cameras / flash LIDARs? It looks like a slightly modified version of one of those with a lower frequency pulse or something to bounce backwards towards the stick person. Cool, definitely. But maybe not as novel as it may seem.

_delirium on March 21, 2012 | [–]

There's a little bit of discussion in these two papers on the relationship between LIDAR and the "full" solution to transient illumination:

* http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~amsmith/papers/ucsc-soe-08-26.pdf

* http://cameraculture.media.mit.edu/files/TransientImagingICC...

defdac on March 21, 2012 | [–]

Mmm. A 3D CAT scan but with light in the visible range instead of X-rays.

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