Calibration Breakthrough

Redid the TUI camera calibration with new aspect ratio (640x480) and de-interlace. Worked on the Mayan table facade and cut the renaissance table down to size. Also recalibrated the AR viewer lens. Finished putting faux stone covering over Mayan altar pedestal. Worked on hanging shrouds and spotlights for the environment.

Mayan Table Facade and New Lens Search

Continued working on the Mayan table facade. Also searched for a new lens for The AR viewer. Couldn't find any suitable lens alternatives.

DART Plus the Mayan Table Facade

Did the calibration for the wireless color camera for the AR viewer, with less than satisfactory results. Tested DART's Wizard-Puppet template apps between the two PCs with much better results than between the PC and Mac. Started working on Mayan table facade. Discussed TUI tabletop options in light of our camera problem.

TUI Tests

Adjusted the Earth Phicon file after noticing the strange behavior of two of the faces.

TUI Camera

Changed lens to the wide angle that will see entire tabletop. Troubleshot and retrained Greek phicon markers.

Compuer Problem Solved

Housekeeping

Spent the day reorganizing and cleaning up the installation/old kiln room before we start the last phase of the project(getting it done).

Forum

Presented our project in progress at the forum.

Gavin gave us some tips on how to troubleshoot our non-functional computer.

Took still shots from the video of the calibration pattern for the black and white camera. Here are two versions of the exact same image. One is "as is", or how the camera sees the pattern raw. The other is after distortion factors were computed and then inversely applied so as to "undistort" or correct the image. This is how the video stream is calibrated--basically just an undistort filter applied to the stream before it is fed into the tracking algorithms in DART/ARToolkit.

Installed the latest version of ARToolkit on my mac so we could train the markers in the proper light tomorrow

3D Content

Exported the Greek Man in w3d so that we'll have some augmented content for the AR viewer for the upcoming forum presentation.

Kensington Lock

Got the kensington lock yesterday and today we permanently installed the projector in the old kiln room.