Projector / Camera group update

Greetings and salutations!

Over the past week, we in the Project/Camera group have been working on breaking down our part of this project. Since we need to get acquainted with the tools we are working with, get an look into what we can (and want to) accomplish, and how time consuming the different aspects will be.

For now we've settled on a few different sub-problems, which we have divided amongst ourselves and will work on solving in the coming days.

• We need to be able to draw and find a rectangle on the video stream. This will be the area of our camera feed which we will transmit to the other participants. Jimmy & Nicklas will be working on figuring this out.
• Using the aforementioned rectangle, Elias will use it to create a mapping between what the camera "sees" and what the projector will show.
• Patrik will work on using the position of the rectangle to crop it from the original stream, so we can send only the relevant information.
• At some point we want to have multiple participants, so John will look into how the different video streams should be merged into a single shared workspace.

When discussing the idea and playing around with the technology, we thought of some additional ideas which we believe would prove to be both useful and neat.

• In a session with multiple participants we want to be able to turn on / off the feed from one, or several, of the incoming video streams. We figured we would do this by having some sort of button for each person connected, which can be used to shut streams on and off. 
• It should be possible to take a snapshot of the current workspace and store it. Either for a picture / sketch, or to restore the workspace and continue working on it.

We will, however, put these ideas on hold for a while, at least until we have a working prototype.