Did you know that camera is regarded as one of the most ancient invention, which is having nearly thousand years of history?
According to the history, the idea of the very first camera had been recorded in a book called, “Book of Optics” in 1015 by the incredible Arabic scientist Ibn al Haytham (Alhazen). Believe it or not, Alhazen, which is also known as “Ptolemy the Second” was the first person who proved that light travels in straight lines. He recorded the theory in the Book of Optics as well! This book had important influence on the development of optics and that’s why Alhazen is also being known as the “Father of modern optics”.
Well, time marches on and we’ve already came to the 21st century, where the digital and optic cameras have been part of our life.
Marc Levoy, a professor from Stanford University, California has been trying to develop a new type of camera. He called his invention as “Frankencamera” (Hmm…, maybe it has something to do with Frankenstein?).
He described that the open-source digital camera is no longer be limited by the software, instead the programmers have the chance to build up new software to teach the open-source cameras some new tricks!
Well, Levoy’s ultimate plan is to invent and manufacture the “Frankencamera” as a platform with the cheapest cost as possible. He’s now co-operating with Andrew Adams, one of his students to make the Frankencamera becomes a reality! [stanford.edu]
This post is redundant with respect to the rest of the blogosphere and as most of your other posts not really informative. The whole blog is full of ads and lacks interesting and relevant content. As soon as I finished this comment, I will remove your blog from my RSS reader. The decision fell when I read ‘He called his invention as “Frankencamera” (Hmm…, maybe it has something to do with Frankenstein?).’ Did you make the effort to actually read the material on standford.edu or did you just copy the link from one of the other places? hackaday? boingboing? makezine?
This article makes an excellent point about Ibn al-Haytham’s work with light and optics: the development of the camera obscura was used to test a hypothesis. If your readers would like to learn more about Alhazen, I encourage them to visit my site.
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