How do you aim and shoot once but get many angles of view? You can’t exactly YET but Ohio Researchers have developed a new lens that can shoot micro images using a special lens that can see in eight different directions at the same time.
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3D Lens view the tip of a ball point pen
Custom software then takes the eight facet views and combines that with the main center view to create a unique 3D image. Researchers at Ohio State have successfully used the lens to create a 3D image of a ball point pen.
This new technology hopefully will some day be used to take that wedding picture!
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