[bmgxyz]

Thanks for this, it's quite interesting.

I have a friend who used to work in a lab doing super-resolution microscopy (i.e. beating the diffraction limit by various means) for use with bio/medical applications. Some of the techniques he told me about have to do with more or less taking lots of data from many images and assembling it all into something meaningful. I suppose what you're describing as "pulling data out of tiny points of light" is kind of the same thing. It's just that the scale is different.