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Re: New QuickCam picture site
On Sun, 11 Feb 1996, Chris DiPierro wrote:
> > My next version might allow the remote user to specify brightness/white
> > balance options to qcam...unless an auto-exposure qcam is written.
>
> What my roomate and I did for this (check out http://biteme.dorm.umd.edu/)
> was to write a small program that looked at the PPM file, and averaged
> the pixel brightness...if it is below 30, it'd adjust the white balance
> appropriately and the same goes for above 30. The camera takes a picture
I was thinking it would be really cool if qcam would do this...i.e. take
a quick snap at 80x60x4, examine the average (perhaps even center
weighted as many cameras are / used to be) and adjust accordingly before
outputing the real image.
> every 3 seconds or so, and just displays the most recent to the
> user...works neat, check it out.
I considered this...but since it uses rsh to get a remote system to take
the picture, I didn't want to abuse the network if nobody was actually
viewing the pictures.
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