hackaday.com - 12/10/2008
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[Justin] sent in his Digitally Assisted Billiards project. Using a web cam, a computer and a projector, these guys have set up a system that shows you the trajectories of your current shot. It detects the angle of the cue and displays a glowing blue line showing where each ball would go and ...
prism.gatech.edu - 12/10/2008
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prism.gatech.edu —
The limiting factor of our implementation was hardware.
Unfortunately, projectors and web cameras with adequate wide angle
lenses are priced outside of our means, and as such, we found that we needed to use key-stoning algorithms to correct for the ...
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Digitally ASSISTED BILLIARDS
engadget.com - 12/11/2008
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engadget.com —
There's cheating, and then there's out-thinking the room.
Georgia Tech's own Justin Needham and Matthew Straub are
clearly headed for great things, as their Digitally Assisted Billiards is reason enough to give these guys a degree in our eyes. ...
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Digitally Assisted Billiards makes everyone a pool shark
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Lasers, Cameras and Mirrors Turn You Into a Pool Shark [Billiards]
Gizmodo —
... as a mirror, glued to a large piece of plywood and hung upside down does not tend to be flat. And as a result, we had to account for those distortions in our code as well. It’s also worth noting that the code was designed using Microsoft Visual studio 2005 as an embedded OS project for an e-Box 2300. If they had better cameras and projectors running through a faster machine, it could be a pretty amazing teaching/cheating tool. [Project Page via Hackaday]
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Digitally Assisted Billiards makes everyone a pool shark
Engadget —
... enough to give these guys a degree in our eyes. Using an array of low-end kit -- just an eBox 2300 embedded computer, Logitech webcam, 4- x 3-foot mirror, a VGA projector, pool table and a few extenders -- the two were able to concoct a system for visually displaying the expected trajectory of all possible shots based on the location of the balls still on the slate. For a much better idea of what we're hinting at, check the demonstration video after the break. [Via Hack-A-Day] Continue reading Digitally Assisted Billiards makes everyone a pool shark ...
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