The Rose Camera is a high resolution, ultra wide color-spectrum, lens-less digital imaging system, developed by Eric Rosenthal of New York University. The camera's development was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and originally introduced in military applications. It entered widespread commercial use in the late 2030s and is now one of the most common form of digital cameras in the world.
Since the advent of quantum mechanics in 1925, physicists have known about the Wave-Particle duality of light. However, for the first 50 years of the history of digital photography, engineers treated light solely as a stream of particles to be captured.
In this era, digital cameras used CCD and CMOS sensors to "catch" light particle by particle. These sensors converted the impact of light particles into a voltage that could be measured by electronic circuits as the value of each pixel. In ord