I remember reading this and seeing the demos 5 long years ago, thinking "Coooool... hope it's not vaporware."

If he actually gets this to market, I imagine it won't be too long before it, or similar tech, is available in high end dslrs and video cameras. This is going to be freakin revolutionary and so, so, so cool.

Kudos, Ren Ng, and thanks! Hope you get real rich off this.

There is a diagram in page 163, describing 22 lenses, that should feel at home in any Edward Tufte book. If I understood it properly, every optical diagram is computer generated from lens parameters. This dissertation is indeed very beautiful.

As a side note, I really like the layout, fonts and colors of the site. This thesis paper is one of the best formatted PDFs I've seen too. Bookmarked just for this.