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We wanted ti patent our CCD camera ethernet interface, but we were 
adiced to not to do so, because even if there would be some patent 
violation, you have to start court case in the given country, and 
we would have to be really rich, to affort that ...

henrik yes.  the openGL CGR use the "container" rendering mode which 
allocates a windows control from scratch and adds it to the window.


then when you call show, it gets notified of the change in size and 
automatically updates the control and gl viewport & camera

on my system tree-heavy averages 8fps at any window size. 


the reason its this slow is that I'm not using any kind of smart 
opengl video ram caching atm.  this will obviously be done in time... 
for now I still need to implement things like a real camera primitive, 
lights and materials.

Look.. here's  what I'm trying to build with Rebol   http://www.uniformserver.com/
 

a fully powered webserver you can take with you on a USB Stick or 
even your camera's flash drive.

there are three button mice, but they are seldom used by non-3d artists. 
 in 3d XYZ,  Scare RotateTranslate, camera Tilt -Orient-Pan  all 
map so cleanly to 3 buttons.

Then I got also 3 quicktimes from the QA round after the devcon before 
the banquet, question is whether somebody is interested in them, 
so they might be uploaded somewhere as well. Just to note, that they're 
not especially good (just from my digital camera) and don't contain 
directly a lot of footage to be able to understand what has been 
talked about. More or less my girlfriend taking some videos from 
the people. ?!

cheap digital camera (samsung vp-d101), Apple's iMovie for editing 
and encoding.

The camera man whas drunk ? ;-) Reichart it whas realy cool, i can't 
watched all the videos today but i'will download them later

Of note, about 20 years ago I wrote up a paper to build a camera 
with a 100x100 CCD that could capture huge images by vibrating the 
aperture (which would be small than a standard pin hole).  The speed 
of your CPU would control the time it took, thus faster computers 
= higher ISO values, that simple.


You would also be able to point it at something far away, and tell 
it to focus on that region, thus getting a clear image even at a 
very far distance.


This is still worth building today.  A $10 camera that takes 10Kx10K 
image in about 1 second, not bad.  Through software you could remove 
things that moved as well, for example cars that park over night, 
people walking around, etc.  Over several days you would end up with 
a crystal clear image of anything that was not moving.

Yes, death of kodachrome is terrible. I've just ordered the last 
5 Kodachrome 64 films from the danish Kodak company. I hope, they 
get more before end of year, where it's finito. I plan to take a 
lot of time off to go and take photos with this film in the autumn. 
Next year I may end up selling my film camera and go with digital. 
Nah, probably not. ;-)

then you could use a combination of motion, pressure, touch points, 
camera input, mic input to invoke all kinds of complex actions with 
combination "hotkeys"

I would think that you could do some pretty accurate distance measurements 
using a combination motion tracking and camera

it does not seem powerful enough to replacy typing... but, it would 
be interesting to have that device on while you type / user the mouse 
and let the computer "learn" and see how much it can predict. if 
you also process what's coming from the camera and microphone maybe 
we can get something useful. probably needs much faster computers 
to do all that though.

It is interesting watching someone REALLY use a tablet for "work". 
 One of my lawyers has had an iPad for a while.  I have been telling 
him he can use it with Qtask in a really powerful way, and he finally 
took the 3 minutes that was required to make his life easier.  We 
installed http://readdle.com/(I have been talking to the lead programmer 
for about a year now), and signed into Qtask with it.


Now he can see all his matters, download (and they made it about 
x4 faster than Windows), and now mark up docs, save to Qtask through 
WebDAV.

I personally sitll have no use for a tablet, and I have an iPad which 
I'm about to sell because I simply don't use it.


For me to really use a Tablet I want forward/backwards camera,  10+ 
battery life, G3 and G4 wireless,  an OS that allows me to get to 
the files and Flash.  

(in fact, I''m reminded of how much I hate the iPad and my iPhone 
again LOL).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GhNXHCQGsM

An open source camera based object tracking system.

yess I did, but in this case, the goal is to do interactive AGG manipulation 
of one image at a time and stamp it on a layered composition.  by 
the time I load the third image (from a digital camera at 7.1 MPixel), 
rebol crashes  :-(

that's the point of having a full VM installed in the transition 
period.  yess it takes disk space, but at least you only keep the 
legacy things within the legacy environment.  they could have gone 
100% 64bit for example and not have to support 32 bit modes within 
the 64 bit and also distribute a 32 and 64 bit version, things like 
that where there are already many *current* apps which fail in one 
or the other.  my friend can't get her camera to work on windows 
7 cause its only compiled as a 32 bit app (drivers and all).  but 
she was forced to use a 64 bit win7 because of support issues.

I'll second that Peter Wood chair an in camera session.

I invite all members of user.r to an in-camera meeting of user.r 
to be held in the private group "user.r in camera"

The in-camera meeting has been concluded:


The members of user.r have voted to accept the following proposal:


Completely delegate the choice of an interim communications system 
to the duly appointed officers of user.r

The members of user.r voted to reject the following proposals:

User.r may not use Qtask as an interim communications system.


User.r may not use any proprietary solution (that includes AltME) 
as an interim communications system.



User.r may not use any proprietary solution (except AltME) as an 
interim communications system.

AFAIK 2D on openGL is just the fact of using a flat camera (orthogonal 
perspective) with a camera looking straight down.

in an application I use, there is an artifact where the perspective 
of the camera offsets coordinates in the y of *some* polygons  .... 
very strange bug...

it seems the word "closed" is too closely coupled to souce in CS.... 
by "closed system" I do put the emphasis on "system"  as in a chaotic 
system, like a complex frequency modulation patchbay or a closed-circuit 
video system where a monitor is in the view of the camera.

problem with the 64 bit win is that many HW drivers where not ported 
to 64 bit and many don't work as-is.  (my friend can't use her 1500$ 
 sony HD camera, for example  :(

We're still having an issue with the camera

We have a strong occurrence of the demo effect. The camera that we 
always use doesn't work, and the second camera we arranged isn't 
here

Our second camera just arrived

we had some some problems with the camera

Peter provided us with another camera

I got a message in Italian saying that I can't join the chat without 
a video camera

Me to: I got a message in Italian saying that I can't join the chat 
without a video camera

But I have webcam on .. I just logined to google + to see this thing 
..

Henrik, it was nice to see you. That was a very cool meeting. OK, 
I'm going to get a camera.