I believe it was Plato who wrote the Allegory of the Cave. A thought experiment where people who have been imprisoned all of their life with their heads restrained to look at projections cast on the wall by a fire. To these people, the shadows are their reality, as they know nothing else. The goal…

This week was quite a doozy, as everyone following along may remember from last week’s post, I was faced with debugging and fixing an error in my code that caused the entire program to crash whenever it was run. I’m happy to report that after days of hunting I finally found the problem and corrected…

During this last week, I made massive improvements to my project. The duel color tracking is working much smoother than it was before as I was able to trim off some redundant functions to help the code run faster. I also got some initial testing set up in my room, with a small projector and…

Over the course of the week, my ultimate goal was to upgrade the color tracking software to the next tier. This constitutes more reliable and multicolor tracking, both of which initially failed. For the multicolored monitoring, I tried repeating the initial procedure twice, but this was so heavy on the machine that the program was…

The coding for the project is progressing smoothly! I have set up a simple color tracker that positions and scales a sword based on tracked color. Below you can see a non-filtered image of me, holding a yellow sharpie. Once I click on the sharpie, the sword will attach itself to the color and follow…

Everybody loves shadow puppets, right? They allow you to use your imagination and create different shapes by casting various shadows onto a screen. But what if they could be even better? My idea revolves around having the light cast by a projector and having a camera observing a person casting the shadow, (see the diagram…