Fun with augmented reality!
Here is my first attempt at creating an augmented reality visualization using Flash in which I simulate the motion of the moon going around the earth. The system works by attempting to detect a special tile graphic (see below) – once this tile has been found the system will overlay the 3D planetary system on top of it. The coolest part about the simulation is the fact that you can rotate the printed symbol and inspect the model from almost any angle!
Galileo eat your heart out!
To try this yourself you can do the following:
- Click on this symbol and print out a copy
- Click here to access the Flash video
- Click the ‘Start’ button
- When prompted, let Flash access your webcam. Note that if you are on a Mac you may need to tell the Flash player to use the correct webcam. You can do this by right-clicking on the movie and selecting ‘Settings’ – then click on the camera icon and select ‘USB Camera’
- Hold up the symbol to your webcam to view the simulation
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February 24th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Cool!
What tools did you use?
March 10th, 2009 at 6:43 am
Hello
We are a group of students from Denmark who are doing AR as a student project… we have got the AR basics working using FLARToolkit and are now looking to get some motion and animation into our application… We were wondering if You would care to share your source code for the Solar system application you made, as wecas see it contains some movement (rotation of the planets etc.)…
the source code, if you are willing to share, can be mailed to:
meab347@gmail.com
- Thanks
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