At 10:16 AM 8/30/00, Alun Owen wrote:
>What is video targeting?
>
>-- In video targeting you use a camera, quickcam or otherwise, trained on 
>an area you wish to reference and use it to detect changes, either of 
>colour or contrast, at points within the image in relation to a previously 
>captured image of the same view. This would allow you to detect if someone 
>is standing at a particular point in relation to the camera or, in my case 
>where a ball is in a tank of water by using a camera under the tank to 
>detect the shadow of the ball.

Thanks for the explanation.

>-- One of my lecturers found me an old copy of some demo files of 
>targeting and the relevant xobject and xtra but if what you say is correct 
>about D6.5 and xobjects, and I doubt you not, then I'll have to figure out 
>another way to detect the blessed ball, maybe with hall switches and a 
>magnet...

There may be current Xtras that can do what the XObject did. Try searching 
for one at:

"The Mile-High Table O'Products"
http://www.updatestage.com/products_table.html

--
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)


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