More on Window Treatments

Having acquired white oil paint and a brush, Stephen set about to do the final treatments to try out. The "Vellum Paper and Spray Adhesive" option section was cleaned off and the frosted vinyl window film was applied in its place. Then the oil paint was brushed over a masked section of the sandblasted section. The excess was then simply rubbed off with paper towels leaving a finish pretty much as we had hoped and anticipated--similar to the "White Spray Paint" section that did so well gluing the image yet still quite transparent from behind.

Afterwards, we learned how to map virtual "obstructions" to coincide with real objects surrounding the marker panel to get foreground occlusions, thereby enhancing the illusion that the augmented objects are really where they appear to be. Although this worked, the alignment of the virtual obstruction with the real world obstruction would fail. It was decided that this had to do with providing DART with the proper camera distortion and calibration information. Since our previous attempt to learn how to do this ended with the information being in an unusable and untranslatable format and now seeing WHY it is so important under certain circumstances to properly calibrate the camera, we researched a method we could place in our pipeline to do this. After much time, we finally came across "GML Camera Calibration" which seemed to provide the desired information in a usable format. Several trials were made but we will wait til we have more time to do the actual calibration.