Bobby, Assuming you can get the X,Y,Z and course, pitch, roll of the real camera, creating the overlay would be pretty easy. There are numerous 2D overlay packages for Java3D (just dig through the archives or look at j3d.org). All you need is a Texture in the scene oriented with the view and scaled correctly so that the 2D real camera image lines up with your virtual one.
The idea is definitely possible. -mike -----Original Message----- From: Discussion list for Java 3D API [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Gomez-Reino Garrido Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 5:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JAVA3D] A dream? Hi All, I am working in a rack control and monitoring systema here at CERN that will have to deal with around 400 racks full of electronics. I was thinking about adding a 3D interface and I saw some kind of example that loaded the geometry from database and changed the color of the rack with the states...and so on. This trigered a discussion about the utitlity of this... Yesterday I have an idea and I don't know if it is a dream... By the moment. I thought that since we have cameras in the rack zones I could create an interface with one panel with the real camera view and another with the virtual view looking from the same point. This would be good and it is quite feasible but then I thought that would be amazing if somehow I could merge this two panel so that I could see the video image and on top the virtual room... Anybody has think, hear, dream about something similar? Please, let me know your comments. Bobby =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
