Software Turns Cheap Webcam Into Instant 3D Scanner

Re:Software Turns Cheap Webcam Into Instant 3D Scanner by sharms on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @09:38AM (#961148)

Does anyone have a working open source implementation of this?

I saw this video about a week or two ago, and decided to hook up at webcam to python / pygame and try a few things, and I have trouble even checking what colors changed each frame in under 1 second, I wonder what methods they are using.

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Re:Software Turns Cheap Webcam Into Instant 3D Scanner by tghw on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @01:04PM (#961534)

OpenCV has a lot of what you'd need to do this sort of thing and also has pretty decent Python bindings. http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/PythonInterface

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Re:Software Turns Cheap Webcam Into Instant 3D Scanner by jacquesm on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @12:17PM (#961455)

Python may not be your best bet for raw video processing at acceptable frame rates. I'd suggest C or C++.

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Re:Software Turns Cheap Webcam Into Instant 3D Scanner by rtghgfvcdf on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @02:16PM (#961629)

The open CV lib is in C (with IPP cpu-optomized assembler if you want) calling the functions from python doesn't slow you down - unless you do something really dumb like trying to itrerate over pixels in the python cde.

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Re:Software Turns Cheap Webcam Into Instant 3D Scanner by jacquesm on Wednesday November 25, 2009 @02:27PM (#961649)

> I have trouble even checking what colors changed each frame in under 1 second

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