Hi there, Someone could have any hint about how to capture the camera view into archive (*.jpeg,*.bmp,etc) in order to make apply a pattern recognition method? Someone knows were could I found some code sample or more information in this issue? Thnx in advance. Best wishes, Thomas

Most capture boards designed for PC's come with capture developers tools. If you purchased a USB camera or something like that, Kodak for sure offers an activex interface to the camera.

If neither of those apply to you, try searching for Twain32 & such. I did a capture project that needed something more than I had and found a great control (freeware, wish I still had it).

Tons of goodies out there, yahoo & infoseek are great for programming, they've been around longer than most so still contain a lot of older pages.

As far as the pattern recognition routines, that's a different story. The complexity ranges depending on what you're trying to do. If you're searching for a heat source with an infrared camera (b&w), you could simply turn everything below a certain value to white & use whatever's left.

GetPixel and SetPixel are also good things to play with & study.

Edited by - Surfer on October 22, 2001 10:46:34 PM

Hi again,

Thnx by you reply...my main focus is in camera view as in the OGL viewport, so the idea is to implement a virtual environment to simulate a intelligent robot and camera moving recognition in virtual reality, to perform automatic tasks with autonomous reaction.

So... someone has any hint about it ?
Thnx in advance,
Thomas

Hi,

I could have misunderstood and stuff cos it''s not long since I started programming OGL but...

By OGL viewport you just mean like what''s on the OGL part of the screen? If yes, it might be worth having a look at NeHes game programming tutorials. I think I noticed you can take screenshots in that, maybe that will help?

Dave

P.S. Get ready to discard this post and go read another