"Suppose you could take a camera - lens, film, and all - and stretch it like a blob of Silly Putty. You could wrap it around people, simultaneously capturing them from all directions. You could put one end of the blob on the ground floor of a building and stretch it up the stairs to the roof, getting one exposure of all the foot traffic in the whole building at once. You could change the shape of the camera for every image in a movie, capturing the point of view of multiple characters at once as they move around."

Andrew Glassner figured it all out.