'Secret Project'

What is it, that a half-computer scientist - half-electrical engineer does in the evening at Strelley Hall, you might ask...
The answer is simple: Playing around with the newest technology to increase the OAL (overall awesomeness level) of this planet by a tiny amount ;-). What I did was rather simple: Take a Kinect camera, some C++ magic including geometrical corrections plane estimations and a simple water effect simulation, and voila: the "interactive pavement". What I intend to do is to project the the water vis onto the floor such that it matches the real foot position... Let's see when I find some time for this last bit of coding :-)

1. Visualizing foot-floor-closeness. The movement of the table also shows you that I expect the background to be static...



2. The water effect on some blue tiles



3. The water effect on a Logo. Here, you can also see that the groundplane estimation and background processing takes quite a while... about 20 seconds. The artifact in the upper lefthand corner is a shiny tile near the fireplace in the living room. The kinect Infrared technology does not work that good on those...