Package: artoolkit
Severity: wishlist
Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Package name: artoolkit
Version : 2.72.1
Upstream Author : Hirokazu Kato, Mark Billinghurst, Philip Lamb
* URL : http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C, C++, python
Description : ARToolKit is a software library for building Augmented
Reality (AR) applications.
ARToolKit is a software library for building Augmented Reality (AR)
applications. These are
applications that involve the overlay of virtual imagery on the real
world. For example, in the image
to the right a three-dimensional virtual character appears standing on a
real card. It can be seen by
the user in the head set display they are wearing. When the user moves the
card, the virtual character
moves with it and appears attached to the real object.
One of the key difficulties in developing Augmented Reality applications
is the problem of tracking
the users viewpoint. In order to know from what viewpoint to draw the
virtual imagery, the application
needs to know where the user is looking in the real world.
ARToolKit uses computer vision algorithms to solve this problem. The
ARToolKit video tracking
libraries calculate the real camera position and orientation relative to
physical markers in real
time. This enables the easy development of a wide range of Augmented
Reality applications. Some of the
features of ARToolKit include:
* Single camera position/orientation tracking.
* Tracking code that uses simple black squares.
* The ability to use any square marker patterns.
* Easy camera calibration code.
* Fast enough for real time AR applications.
* SGI IRIX, Linux, MacOS and Windows OS distributions.
* Distributed with complete source code
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
Locale: LANG=es_MX.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_MX.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
