[comp.graphics] questions: optical computing, VISION: Rose's and Marr's

rrizzo@bbn.com (Ron Rizzo) (08/17/89)

1. What is optical computing?  I browsed a rather forbidding text with that
   name the other day and wasn't sure what it was up to.  It didn't look
   like it had much to do with computer graphics.

2. Has anyone read Albert Rose's book VISION?  It's supposed to present
   a summary of all we know about vision.  I think Rose says that the key
   to being able to do anything, ie, to artificially replicate any and all
   visual phenomena and to be able to analyze it completely, is to build
   a device that can count individual photons.  We already have such an
   instruments, so remaining work is just a matter of exploiting already
   available technology.  (What about David Marr's VISION?  Does it have
   much relevance to issues in computer graphics?)

Regards,
Ron
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