Update..........
I have the camera set-up and pool table in position! I've finally had some success with the shimmer - I can now use it to calculate the angle of the cue to the table and it's also giving me some visual output, so now I know how the striking of a ball appears via the shimmer.
Distance can be measured (in pixels) by using the mouse to click on the two points you want to measure between. With some experimentation, 1 pixel is equivalent to approximatly 0.61cm. However, this is useless for measuring the distance the ball travelled, so camera tracking is now my main priority. Not only is it the best way to measure the distance the ball travelled on the table, it will also be essential when dealing with angles later,so it is a key ingredient to the success of the project.
Following this Fridays meeting with Benoit, we decided on trying to use matlab for camera tracking, if this is unsuccesful or taking too long, to look into using some other ways and output data we need to matlab such as distance & angle.
Fingers crossed......
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sounds like great progress is being made! Cant wait to see it all when i get back (id love to see photos if its possible to post them on the blog)... keep up the good work :)
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