In some ways, yes, though while the approach you describe has been explored ( http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/ataneja/ModelingDynamicScenes.pdf http://www.inf.e

In some ways, yes, though while the approach you describe has been explored ( http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/ataneja/ModelingDynamicScenes.pdf http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/ataneja/ModelingDynamicScene... ), that's not quite what concentric mosaics and other light field approaches are doing. One strength of light field methods is that there is no need to model the scene. (Photosynth, on the other hand, spends much of its computational budget determining the 3D position of sparse feature points and the cameras observing them.)