Broxtronix

Long time, no update, eh?

Things have been busy. Matt Hancher and I have been coding like crazy at Ames on the Vision Workbench, which is our new C++ library for image processing and computer vision. It’s very fast, very versatile, and most importantly very expressive. It’s amazing what you can do with just a few lines of code. We’re documenting and testing things for our first internal beta release and it has been very exciting to see everything come together. The wheels are also in motion for an open source release at the end of the summer, so we’ll be able to spread the love far and wide sometime very soon. Soon, you too will have a chance to see what I’ve been slaving away on so feverishly on for the past few months.

In the meantime, I thought you might enjoy these super hi-res quicktime VR movies. These photos were taken in a high fidelity mockup of the space shuttle cockpit and mid deck at Johnson Space Center in Houston. The images were taken Panoscan camera system — a rotating linescan camera with a fisheye lens. This camera system really kicks ass; it takes fairly high resolution photographs (each vertical scanline has 6000 pixels) and the sensor has an impressively high dynamic range (14-bits). The price tag, you ask? $36,900! Youch!!

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