On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Roger Ruth wrote:
> ...
> >But the overhead camera is a relatively new concept, used only sparingly at
> >the last world championships in Seville, Spain, and never attempted at the
> >Olympics...
Wrong! IBM built the overhead camera system for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Powered with a multiprocessor RS-6000 architecture, it followed the action
with minimal bounce, using a critically damped open loop control system.
I have pictures of it!
Kamal.
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