The Lens and Eye

the Lytro Illum

First there was the canvas, and then came the camera. The Polaroid was fun for a while, and now, of course, we've gone digital, which is already so yesterday. Time to get ready for the next step ~ computational photography. "Images from such a computational camera," this article tells us, "might capture aspects of reality that other cameras miss." Apparently, it has to do with light and focus and dimension. And with the fact that, like human vision, what we see has less to do with images on a retina than with how the brain puts them together and completes them: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/computational-photography/99999