Here's a blog post by Terrence Tao on the subject: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/compressed-sensing-and-single-pixel-cameras/ http://terrytao.wordpre

Here's a blog post by Terrence Tao on the subject: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/compressed-sensing-and-single-pixel-cameras/ http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/compressed-sensing-... One application he mentions is sensor networks that can withstand a loss of a large number of nodes. As soon as I saw the article my first thought was: "real-time raytracing?"