Camera lens made from 32,000 drinking straws

Wonder if my Lytro can do this. I’d have to begin by taking a really good shot of an illuminated subject, then physically move the whole FOV exactly one camera centered point of focus next to it and develop the FOV from that array. then continue down the line adding a level when I get to end of the x-array to start creating the Y-array. Only a few years later, I might have enough multi focal FOV’s so that I could -then- start to process it all as a dimensional array.
I think I’m going to need about a Petabyte or two just to store array data. Plus maybe a new camera after I wear the onboard flash ram out…
I believe I’m gonna automate and start with a 8x8 array first as a test. If the resolution holds, I may have taken this analog device idea to a whole nother level…
typical Lytro XRAW picture is about 110MB, so 110Mb X 64 (array size) = 880 Mb. Oh hell, nearly a terabyte? For one picture??

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