I thought I read that the ir-leds are angled slightly outward. Perhaps the amount of light detected from each is affected by the angle, which could be used to solidify the position?
-Chuckk On 10/28/07, Roman Haefeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 01:12 -0700, punchik punchik wrote: > > Hi , is there any way of using the ir sensor bar with > > the wimote in pure data? > > yes, that is possible. the sensor bar is nothing else but two groups of > ir-leds, that are used as a reference point in space. you couls also use > a lighter (or up to four) instead. the wiimote just sends you the > coordinates of the reference points' (ir-led, lighter, whatever) > projection on the wiimote's intenal ir-camera. > > > Is it posible to track the > > movements of people carrying wimotes in real space > > with puredata? > > no, that is not quite possible with the sensors, that wiimote is > equipped with. it has 3 accelerometers (x, y and z), but it is very > difficult (probably impossible) to calculate a position out of this > data. it would be possible to calculate the position with the data from > the ir-camera, but then you would need at least 3 reference points and > they would have to be always visible for the cam. since the angle is > quite narrow, it is probably not too suitable for position tracking. > > roman > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Telefonate ohne weitere Kosten vom PC zum PC: http://messenger.yahoo.de > > > _______________________________________________ > PD-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > -- http://www.badmuthahubbard.com
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