Jason Dunn
12-01-2004, 03:14 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.photo.net/learn/technology/mflash/merl-non-photo.html' target='_blank'>http://www.photo.net/learn/technology/mflash/merl-non-photo.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"I recently visited Ramesh Raskar at the Mitsubishi Electrical Research (MERL) lab in Cambridge, MA to learn more about his multi-flash camera innovation that recently made an impressive appearance at the SIGGRAPH 2004...The multi-flash camera captures real life images and renders them in a non-photorealistic line-form. Ramesh Raskar describes this process as computational photography. Raskar modestly insists that while "it's something you can't do with film, it certainly is not a replacement for photography, or Photoshop for that matter". Non-photorealistic imaging is an easy way to convey ideas/images and has myriad applications for technical and medical imaging."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/tech-ill-car.jpg" /><br /><br />The driving force behind digital imaging for years has been the capture of the most realistic, true-to-life image possible. Now that we've achieved that, some researchers are looking towards other types of image capture - in this case, a multi-flash system with post-processing that has some very interesting results.