Table of Contents
Preface .
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1. What is the Kinect? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
How does it work? Where did it come from? 1
What Does the Kinect Do? 1
What’s Inside? How Does it Work? 2
Who Made the Kinect? 6
Kinect Artists 11
Kyle McDonald 11
Robert Hodgin 15
Elliot Woods 18
blablabLAB 23
Nicolas Burrus 27
Oliver Kreylos 31
Alejandro Crawford 35
Adafruit 39
2. Working With the Depth Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Images and Pixels 41
Project 1: Installing the SimpleOpenNI Processing Library 43
Installing OpenNI on OS X 44
Installing OpenNI on Windows 45
Installing OpenNI on Linux 46
Installing the Processing Library 47
Project 2: Your First Kinect Program 49
Understanding the Code 58
Project 3: Looking at a Pixel 61
Color Pixels 64
Depth Pixels 66
Converting to Real World Distances 67
Project 4: A Wireless Tape Measure 69
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