CHAPTER 3
CV Bling—OpenCV Inbuilt Demos
Now that you (hopefully) have OpenCV installed on your computer, it is time to check out some cool demos of what OpenCV can do for you. Running these demos will also serve to confirm a proper install of OpenCV.
OpenCV ships with a bunch of demos. These are in the form of C, C++, and Python code files in the samples folder inside OPENCV_DIR (the directory in which you extracted the OpenCV archive while installing; see Chapter 2 for specifics). If you specified the flag BUILD_EXAMPLES to be ON while configuring your installation, the compiled executable files should be present ready for use in OPENCV_DIR/build/bin ...
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