Assignment 2

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And here is the super-sampled extra image:

Project Proposal

Title: Exploration into Augmented Reality

Student Name: Michael Nusinov

Class name and Number: Computer Graphics II 4005-762

Instructor’s name: Reynold Bailey

Project Web site URL: HERE

Summary of project: This project will use the FLARToolkit framework to explore what is possible with Augmented Reality. Using Adobe Flex and a webcam, users will be able to hold up marker cards to interactively explore the domain of television/movies/hockey? (Haven’t quite decided yet) Some sort of graphical information will be displayed in the Flex interface, possibly a video or animation. User will be able to interact with the GUI by moving the marker card or by clicking on other controls in the UI.

Project Objectives:

• To gain a better understanding of augmented reality and an example framework that implements it (FLARToolkit).
• To create an interesting and fun user interface that takes advantage of the FLARToolkit.
• System and Software: Adobe Flex Builder, FLARToolkit, webcam, laptop
• Project components – GUI built in Adobe Flex.

Project Timeline:

• Week 4 – Get FLARToolkit up and running on my laptop and have the sample application working.
• Week 5 – Finalize what I’m going to display to the user. Begin work on GUI.
• Week 6 – Project Midterm done.
• Week 8 – Finish GUI.
• Week 9 – Finish testing. Present

Final Presentation: The final presentation would just be a demo of my finished GUI. I’ll bring in my laptop and webcam and demonstrate how it works.

Assignment 1

Blue Sphere:

• Centered at [0.1, 0.4, 0]
• Size 0.7

Green Sphere:

• Centered at [-0.8, -0.1, -1]
• Size 0.5

Red floor:

• Vertices at
• [-5.0, -1, 5]
• [1.5, -1, 5];
• [1.5, -1, -30]
• [-5.0, -1, -30]

Light Source:

• diffuse light of [1, 1, 1, 1.0]
• specular light of [1, 1, 1, 1.0]
• Positioned at [0, 5, 5, 1.0]

Camera:

• Positioned at [0, 0, 5.0]
• Looking at [0, 0, 0]
• Up Vector of [0, 1.0, 0]
  
• Perspective of
  
• FOV:45
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.0*screenWidth/screenHeight
  
• zNear: 1
• ZFar: 1000
  

Idea for Project

Just documenting this so I don't forget the link, an idea for the project could involve this whole "Augmented Reality" business.
Link to more links.

What do use it with though? Hockey? Movies? Television shows? Pop culture itself? Decisions decisions. I also need to procure a web cam of some sort.

Example by Saqoosha

FLARToolKit demo at Adobe MAX 2009 Japan from Saqoosha on Vimeo.

Introduction

This is a blog to post my assignments for Computer Graphics 2 (4005-762-70) at RIT. It will be updated as assignments are finished for the class. Post about my project will also appear here.