Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks. If the technology catches on, camera performance will be no longer be limited by the software that comes pre-installed by the manufacturer. Virtually all the features of the Stanford camera – focus, exposure, shutter speed, flash, etc. – are at the command of software that can be created by inspired programmers anywhere. “The premise of the project is to build a camera that is open source,” said computer science professor Marc Levoy.
Virtual reconstructions is all the new rage - just look at us! - but Antonio and Joseba Becerro Martinez laid their first virtual bricks (or meshes) as early as 2006. By now they have created a high-quality reconstruction of the entire Acropolis.
The most remarkable fact though, is that they did this using only OpenSource software and that Antonia and Joseba share their work with the rest of the world under a Creative Commons license, basically allowing you to copy, distribute, commercialize and to even make derived works under the condition you give them their - deserved! - attribution.
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Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks. 
