On 06/08/2014 06:51 AM, Julian Todd wrote: > I applied for one of those phones for use in this project: > http://www.housahedron.co.uk/42-2/scanning-and-drawing/ > > Unfortunately, they didn't give me one. Anyway, it seems to have the same > capabilities as a kinect. Probably not so good for caves.
Damn, you were the first person I thought of when I saw this. I'm in CA for a few weeks. I'll head over to Castro Street in Mountain View and look for people who know about Tango and slap some sense into them :) Philip > > > > ***But that's just data acquisition. I do have another idea for presenting > the data. > > For example, there is this android app for displaying the underlying > geology overlayed onto the landscape as you walk around: > http://www.bgs.ac.uk/igeology/3d.html > > I am busy sending centreline data of a cave system to those guys so that we > can try to do this with a cave. It's a problem of making them interested > enough in the concept. > > (I tried to code this idea myself, but the directional sensors in my phone > were just too noisy. Could work a bit harder at this and use a device with > a bigger screen. The currently broken code is here: > https://bitbucket.org/goatchurch/groundwindow ) > > The big idea is that we should be able to walk around the landscape holding > our big tablet in front of us giving an X-ray view of the cave underneath > us. Maybe you could hold it up against the mountain and see all the cave > systems inside of it. > > This would be fantastic for following passages on the surface in order to > see if any of the surface features correspond with potential entrances. > Also, for example, you could walk around trying to line up a big trunk > passage or a plane of development, because you would expect sometimes for > these features to puncture the surface. > > Besides this, it would be a really cool way of looking at cave surveys -- > not just as a poster on the wall. Caves are often relatively small, so you > could relocate them into the ground underneath a park or a field and > navigate around them even on a 1-1 scale like a virtual maze. This is a > better game than sitting on your chair and spinning meaningless pictures > around on the screen. > > Julian. > > > > > > On 6 June 2014 17:15, Martin Sluka <martinsluka at mac.com> wrote: > >> https://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/#project >> >> m.s. >> _______________________________________________ >> Therion mailing list >> Therion at speleo.sk >> http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Therion mailing list > Therion at speleo.sk > http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion >