Well spot the dog has been and gone, mainly due to reproducing someone elses work is illegal but hey now i get to introduce Rufus the Dog. Rufus will be the star of my AR popup book. He will take part in an adventure to find his ball.

Unfortunately the models on the book will have to be static for the moment due to the software i am using but hopefully in the future will allow for some limited animation. Thus bringing a book truly to life in front of children allowing them to dvelop a thirst for reading.

Well the book design is simple! To simply replace the current images of a childrens book with barcode tags!This would look something like this!

 

 These tags would then be recognised using a camera and a 3d model would be overlaid onto the tags by the software.

Some thing like this!

 

 

Like i proposed only a few minutes ago, a childrens popup/picture book will be recreated in 3d right in front of there eyes! This will utilise barcode style tags to display a 3d model on a page! These barcode tags can be recognised by most cameras and software overlays a specific image onto the tags. The user would then be able to see theses images using a special pair of glasses to utilise the camera and software combination.  

Fed up of those old cardboard pop up books, well now we bring you a 3d book! My idea is relatively simple to take a well know children’s book such as spot the dog and retell the story using 3d instead of 2d pictures. 

Well really its easier to show this than explain it, but i’ll give it a go. Basically augmented reality is combining some aspects of virtual reality into the real world, for example an architect could use augmented reality to show what a project around a current buidling would look like.Some examples are shown below!

Well this post is just to mark a new project!

Well its not really a pet but its an organism! Just download from the .rar file from the link below, unpack and run the exe file.

Download for Windows
Download for Mac
Please ensure the executable is in the same folder as the “lib” folder.

Below is the final code and descriptions of the code:

OK im not all that bright, declaring a second array was proving to be more difficult than getting those little bits of popcorn from between your teeth but i digress! If only i had bothered gettting up at 9 on thursdays hours of irratation couldve been avoided. Turns out all i needed was:

float [] myArray;   to declare the array

and then

myArray = new float[201]; to initialise it 

Now the organism will start off at absolute zero and expand until it reaches the data from the archos site, i.e. the cameras from Portland square!  It then increments by either +0.05 or -0.05 depending on whether the data is larger or smaller than the previous.

Lets see if that works!

Well Chris like how the work was progressing but its still not quite there! At the moment it is just a scaled up version of the test, i.e. with more circles and a for loop to propagate them all! “We need some smoothness” or something like that was uttered and it became the mission to make it dynamic rather than static and jumpy! This could be hard!