Re: Triangulating webcams

2008-07-13 Thread em
dev stuff. I downloaded the SDK and I even own an iPod Touch, but I'm trying to remain focussed on establishing a neighborcentric desktop. Even this 'triangulating webcams' is a distraction--albeit a pleasant one. I was thinking of initially pointing three cameras at a rubik'

Re: Triangulating webcams

2008-07-12 Thread Jens Alfke
On 12 Jul '08, at 6:40 PM, em wrote: I can easily transport 'strings' over a network using UDP multi- casting/broadcasting via Quartz Composer, but some of these strings may get a little lengthy. What's a good language statement(s) (obj c API) for transporting small (10MB) data structures

Re: Triangulating webcams

2008-07-12 Thread Stefan Arentz
On Jul 12, 2008, at 9:40 PM, em wrote: ... I can easily transport 'strings' over a network using UDP multi- casting/broadcasting via Quartz Composer, but some of these strings may get a little lengthy. What's a good language statement(s) (obj c API) for transporting small (10MB) data str

RE: Triangulating webcams

2008-07-12 Thread em
ks Andrew for the ref. to opencv, but they won't let me visit any sites outside of Apple:-). I would enjoy developing these by myself, but I keep hearing people say, 'don't do it, it's already been done--reuse and recycle'. Again,

Re: triangulating webcams

2008-07-12 Thread Andrew Farmer
On 12 Jul 08, at 12:57, Gary L. Wade wrote: Sounds intriguing; at first thought, you may want to consider Xgrid to provide such collaboration, although it may not be what you're needing; there's other means to provide collaborative networking between Macs. If you want feedback on an experime

Re: triangulating webcams

2008-07-12 Thread Gary L. Wade
Sounds intriguing; at first thought, you may want to consider Xgrid to provide such collaboration, although it may not be what you're needing; there's other means to provide collaborative networking between Macs. If you want feedback on an experimental GUI, try the mac-gui-dev list on Yahoo wit

triangulating webcams

2008-07-12 Thread em
I'm proto-typing a tri-screen GUI. I have 3 mac minis in a local network and would like to triangulate their three web-cams. It's purely exploratory self-funded research on my part at this point. Any positive, constructive replies would be appreciated. -em "One laptop per child-->one neighb