I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Synthetic aperture confocal imaging
September 2, 2008
What a mouthful, eh? But that’s the name of a process outlined in a 2004 Stanford University paper: synthetic aperture confocal imaging.
Basically, it’s an attempt to adapt confocal microscopy methods (which are used to produce 3D images of specimens) to the task of taking images of objects through “partially occluded environments”. Or, to put that into slightly more normal-sounding terms, it’s using a synthetically shallow depth of field, combined with variant lighting, to allow for images to be taken of objects that are partially obstructed from the camera’s view.
In other words: something only a Photography nerd could love.
