Training microscopic deformations in a sheet of glass to classify images using nothing but light
louisvarge · x · 2026-11-04
A reshared project from @arithmoquine: training microscopic deformations on a sheet of glass so that the glass alone classifies images through nothing but the propagation of light—effectively treating the glass itself as a trainable physical neural network, an optics-based machine learning approach.
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