Langford had been part of MIT's 1979 Chrysalis project that resulted in a biplane design that enjoyed a modicum of success -- a project MacCready had also played a small part in.

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University College London's part in the project has been to design and build an optical corrector for the camera - an array of five massive lenses that sit at the primary focus of the camera.

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Netflix said that as part of the project it is sharing its hardware design and the open source software components of the server used in the project.

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