Methods and apparatus for spectrally-encoding plural source images and for
providing the spectrally-encoded plural source images in a composite
image, for rendering the composite image in a physical form, or for
recovering at least one of the encoded source images from the rendered
composite image such that the recovered source image is made
distinguishable. A noise component is introduced in the encoding of the
plurality of source images so as to mask at least one of the source
images during spectral demultiplexing.