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Re:The Electro-Optic Camera – The World's First DSLR by r4pha on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @10:27AM (#7810075)
I might be wrong, but I think adding color information would not be _that_ hard. Basically you could filter each sensor cell for one of the RGB colors and just interpolate the results for each color channel. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demosaicing
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Re:The Electro-Optic Camera – The World's First DSLR by JamesMcMinn on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @11:40AM (#7810815)
That's exactly how the majority of digial cameras work today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter
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