Thanks for your understanding and feedback. > I0m meeting Sébastien and Vincent on Friday to prepare specific project > ideas that you (and other interested students) can pick up. > > Stay tuned for that. The rules at Google are that if there is agreement > between the student and the mentoring organization, the scope of an > application can be changed, even that radically. You have an application > in the webapp, we have time up until around April 15 to work something out. > Alright, sounds great. I'll be missing from April 14 to May 2 though.
> how far advanced is that enhancement? do you think you could provide it > as "qualifying patch"? If it were that simple I would have made it ages ago. I've done all possible fixes & minor modifications last year. The enhancements are significant enough that I would have loved to work on it on this year's GSoC as a project, although that did not seem possible after discussing it with Julian. Mainly I wanted to support different surfaces of rendering, and use threads for smoother loading. > There is a lot of work in 3D space transformation that is waiting for > your talent. Alright, good to hear that. > > I'll share with you a vision. > > Imagine you're in a room. A classroom, though any concave volume will > do. Projectors (or wall integrated touch screen displays, > rear-projectors, whatever combination) are scattered all over the place, > to cover the concave surface completely, and they project a seamless > immersive environment. > > To do this we need: > - warping and blending, similar to Hugin, although the process is > inverse since we are splitting into individual images from a single > hemispherical or equirectangular input, and there are further challenges > such as real-time. > > - We'll need to adapt the geometry to the position of the projectors; > and we'll need to blend the intensity of the projections in overlap > areas. Some sort of calibration mechanism, like Hugin has geometric and > photometric adjustments. > > Lighttwist <http://vision3d.iro.umontreal.ca/en/projects/lighttwist/>, > Sébastien Roy's project, currently does the blending horizontally on a > cylinder only, and uses a fisheye image from the center of the cylinder > to calibrate. > > My vision is to break out of the constraints of the cylinder, so to make > a truly immersive experience possible; and to break out of the > constraints of a regular geometry such as a dome (planetarium) or a > cylindrical screen. > > At some point there may be individual cameras associated with individual > projectors, and the calibration may be in real time, accounting for > moving objects and changing conditions. But for now, static, one-time > calibration of the system before projection as done in Lighttwist will do. > > My background is in business and economics. Such a system would enable > humanity to put a planetarium in every classroom for less than 5000$. > Today the cost of a planetarium this size is about 500.000$ and it > requires a fixed installation. It will enable us to share a common room > even if we are time zones apart. Amd plenty of other applications. > > Lot of work in 3D space and challenges for skilled mathematicians and > computer scientists like yourself. That sounds very interesting, although I'm not sure if I would be up to something as complicated as this. But if I can contribute to this in any way, I'd definitely be very glad. > I think you would be an enrichment to this community. It could be the > idea you originally applied to. It could be the ideas that will be > tabled (hopefully soon) with Sébastien Roy. At this stage we are guiding > each other toward knowing each other. Your reply gave me a much better > insight into your motives. We'll work something out for the common benefit. Thanks, I will be waiting. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
