The Digital Camera Revolution

[Dave Monroe]

"... a muddy brown almost black eyeball reflecting a windmill and a
jagged reticule of tree-branches in silhouette [...] Well, to be
honest, now it isn't reflecting a windmill, it's reflecting a bottle
of gin. No bottle of gin out here on the Heath either. But it was
reflecting a windmill. [...] Could it be that Blicero's eyes, in which
Greta Erdmann saw maps of his Kingdom, are for Thanatz reflecting the
past?" (GR, Pt. IV, p. 670)

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/zak_smith/670.htm

http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mirrors

"Another technology that might aid real-world sleuths is the 'world in
an eye' imaging system, which can re-create a person’s surroundings
from information reflected in a single eye. Using a geometric model of
the eye’s cornea, Nayar and colleague Ko Nishino, now at Drexel
University in Philadelphia, created a camera that detects where the
cornea and the white of the eye meet. Computations then turn the
cornea’s reflection of a fish bowl–like image into a map of the
environmental surroundings projected on the person’s retina."

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/337554/title/The_Digital_Camera_Revolution