For those curious, here is prior art from 12 years ago, capturing light in a coke bottle with a single streak camera.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtsXgODHMWk
https://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/
I remember when this dropped and where I was when I watched it and read the paper. One of the coolest things I'd ever seen.
This seems like a great extension of the work. I'm okay with trading accuracy for crude usefulness as a model. Making this interactive and putting it in the hands of curious minds is the next step.