[Tig] new compression methods (camera)

[Rob Lingelbach]

a story in the New York Times on a prodigious mathematician from Australia who
works with prime numbers discusses the potential of a new camera design
that uses revolutionary compression methods.  The story is at
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13prof.html

here´s a paragraph:

The military is interested in using the work for reconnaissance: blanket a
battlefield with simple, cheap cameras that might each record a single pixel
of data. Each camera would transmit the data to a central computer that, using
the mathematical technique developed by Dr. Tao and Dr. Candès, would
construct a comprehensive view. Engineers at Rice University have made a
prototype of just such a camera.


-- 
Rob Lingelbach
http://www.colorist.org/robhome.html