Martin, This is a bit of a tall order! But I can make a suggestion that you could try: The app I would suggest is called camfind. For example, I just took a shot of my coffee mug and the answer was black-and-white striped mug. Which is correct! So, if you use this app and isolate any given wire by sliding a sheet of plain paper underneath it, so that CamFind is only looking at one wire at a time, you may have success! Give it a try anyway, I think, hope I'm Right here, CamFind is a free app. So there's nothing to be lost… Happy snapping, Sandy
Sent from my iPhone > On 6 Jan 2014, at 21:10, "Martin G. McCormick" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > One of the more interesting things I have wanted to do > with the camera in an iPad/iPhone is using it to read wire > colors. The problem is that many wires are not one simple color. > In an Ethernet cable, for instance, there are 8 wires that are > colored in such a way as to allow a technician to tell which > lead belongs with it's mate making for four pairs. As one > example, the first pair is called "blue-white" and consists of > one lead which is mostly blue with little wite thready spots > like dashes printed in the insulation. It's mate is white with > little blue markings against the white background. There is > another pair that is green and grey and so forth. > > An OCR program probably couldn't help you much because > these are not characters but a pattern-matching program probably > could do it if you could show it only one wire at a time. > > Has anybody done this with any success? > > By the way, the real monster in this problem is that > wires inside of equipment are in all sorts of places and bundled > tightly making it hard to isolate one out of, say, 15 or 20 or > lots more. I have seen the wire bundle coming out of a relay > rack at our local telephone exchange. This bundle was about the > size of a pair of legs and probably had 4800 strands in it. The > color scheme repeats itself indefinitely and then the whole > rainbow goes in to a sheath of some color pattern along with > other small bundles in their sheaths of different colors and > that's how they do this on a huge scale. > > The camera on an IOS device would probably be able to > see lots of wires at once but the job would be to isolate the > one to identify and ignore the rest. > > Martin > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that > the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security > strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something > unpredictable happen. > > Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by > visiting the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
