From: Patrick Wilken (patrickw@cs.monash.edu.au)
Date: Thu Nov 19 1998 - 20:57:17 MST
>There is a limitation to the visual acuity possible to a bug that is
>literally the size of a gnat. I believe Brin suggested that it might
>need to land and inflate a lens in order to get good visual images.
>This could make such bugs a lot easier to detect (depending on how big
>the lens is).
I wonder if you could get around poor resolution of any one gnat by
combining signals from array of them (a la radio astronomy). The downside
is you'd probably need a swarm of them for the idea to work; still its a
neat idea even if probably unworkable.
ciao, patrick
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