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Making Things See
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Making Things See

by Greg Borenstein
January 2012
Beginner to intermediate
440 pages
17h 11m
English
Make: Community
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Chapter 3. Working with Point Clouds

IN THIS CHAPTER

What You’ll Learn in This Chapter

Welcome to the Third Dimension

Drawing Our First Point Cloud

Making the Point Cloud Move

Viewing the Point Cloud in Color

Making the Point Cloud Interactive

Projects

Project 8: Air Drum Kit

Project 9: Virtual Kinect

Conclusion

Up to this point, we’ve basically been treating the Kinect as a two-dimensional camera. Yes, we’ve looked at the depth data that the Kinect provides, but so far we’ve only used it to extract information from the image itself. We’ve treated the depth information almost as a kind of metadata about a two-dimensional image: we’ve processed it in order to draw conclusions about the image, such as locating its closest point, but that’s as far as we’ve ...

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