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Realtime ASCII Goggles
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on Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:00 AM
from the through-crt-colored-spectacles dept.
from the through-crt-colored-spectacles dept.
jabjoe writes "Russian artists from Moscow have created goggles with realtime image filtering. Among the Photoshop-like filters that can be applied is, interestingly, ASCII: you can view the world in real time as ASCII. Pointless but cool."
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ASCII and thou shalt receive (Score:5, Funny)
(http://ofteninspired.com/ | Last Journal: Sunday April 01 2007, @05:49PM)
Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.gnarfel.com/)
Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive (Score:5, Funny)
(http://handmademac.googlepages.com/)
Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive (Score:4, Funny)
Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive (Score:4, Funny)
Neo: o rly?
Morpheus: ya rly. *hands Neo goggles*
Neo: ...whoah
Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday December 08 2004, @01:13PM)
I know... Gimp-fu.
I think you mean.. (Score:4, Funny)
(http://66.249.93.104/ | Last Journal: Monday November 20 2006, @09:27AM)
Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive (Score:5, Funny)
(http://somethingstirring.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Monday October 01, @05:09PM)
Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive (Score:4, Funny)
(http://www.lazylightning.org/)
Totally Excellent!
Oh wait, wrong movie. Sorry, I just can't ever think of Keanu in anything but Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. I guess there must be a glitch in the matrix or something...
Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday December 08 2004, @01:13PM)
Neo: I totally had this dream where I woke up in a bathtub full of snot, and my head had this gnarly plug hooked into it. Then I went down this awesome waterslide. It was like waterloo, only totally metal.
Neo: [does air guitar]
Morpheus: That was no dream. The world as you understand it exists only as a massive simulation, designed and built by the machines, to deceive mankind while harnessing their body heat for energy. You were plugged into the matrix like the others, but we rescued you.
Neo: [Looks painfully confused]
Morpheus: [sighs] Up until now, you were a lot like that dude in that song "One" by Metallica.
Neo: Excellent!
Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive (Score:5, Funny)
(http://66.249.93.104/ | Last Journal: Monday November 20 2006, @09:27AM)
My name... is FRODO! (Score:5, Funny)
"My name.... is FRODO!"
Re:ASCII and thou shalt receive (Score:5, Funny)
Judging by his performance neither can Keanu Reeves.
ObPedantic (Score:5, Funny)
Unfortunately TFA said ASCII - the Matrix included a lot of Japanese Katakana/Hiragana script so you'd probably need JIS, Unicode or ISO something-or-other...
Also, do not try this at home unless you are The One - otherwise, after ten minutes you'd probably go green and flow downwards.
Re:ObPedantic (Score:5, Funny)
(http://ofteninspired.com/ | Last Journal: Sunday April 01 2007, @05:49PM)
Pointless but cool? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://xmoo.com/)
Re:Pointless but cool? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pointless but cool? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Pointless but cool? (Score:5, Funny)
a) enhance the surreality of certain drugs (didn't know surreality was a word, but spellchecker isn't complaining. Interestingly, my spellchecker says spellchecker is spelled wrong.
b) make sex with unattractive people more fun. Actually, this would make sex with attractive people more fun too. As long as they don't complain about the massive stupid looking goggles you have on. Or the massive thing that powers them and keeps hitting your partner in the ribs.
Pointless? Useless? I Think Not (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://slashdot.org/~eldavojohn/ | Last Journal: Tuesday October 16, @03:26PM)
The thing that impressed me was I believe I saw a standard Sobel operator filter that extracts lines based on the derivatives of a pixel and its neighbors. Now in computer vision oftentimes this is used to simplify complex scenes so that region/structural analysis can be done.
You know when you're developing computer vision applications for robots, it sure would help to be able to code an algorithm & take it outside to test it against different light sources and scenarios so you get an idea of what needs to be tweaked.
Plus if your robots have hardware restrictions, this system can enforce them to give you an idea of realtime lag.
I could see this being a very valuable tool in the realms of academia & robotics. I realize the original idea is for ACII art, as mentioned, but there are some real applications here.
ASCII (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/)
My 12 Year Old Kid Would Love It (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
you bite dog for 42 pts damage
you hear a door burst open!
you see an old meme shambling toward you
you activate peril sensitive sunglasses
the goggles do nothing!
(moar)
Two guys on Moscow street (Score:3, Funny)
B: I can too you idiot - take those stupid goggles off. You're embarassing me.
Ob. DNA Comment. (Score:5, Funny)
"Pointless, but cool." (Score:5, Funny)
Peter
One camera only... (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.pyoro.com/)
Nice gimmick, though.
Re:One camera only... (Score:4, Interesting)
why did it have to be... (Score:4, Funny)
ASCII Goodness (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ASCII Goodness (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday February 07 2007, @10:52AM)
Needs more overlays. (Score:5, Funny)
(http://robvincent.net/ | Last Journal: Tuesday October 09, @01:55PM)
Re:Needs more overlays. (Score:5, Funny)
more obscure reference (Score:3, Interesting)
I wouldn't say useless. (Score:5, Informative)
(http://tsfraser.googlepages.com/index.html)
Re:I wouldn't say useless. (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Wednesday December 08 2004, @01:13PM)
Being able to simulate various types of color-blindness, or color-shift the real world to assist the color-blind are two possibilities. You could also use edge enhancement for people that can't focus too well, brightness enhancement for people who can't see in moderate light, gamma correction for night-blindness, and maybe some kind of stylized "cell shading" for people who have trouble discerning shapes and depth cues (shadows, etc).
Now, add on some binocular optics (read: conventional glasses) and you can further push the envelope by compensating for astigmatism, lazy eye, and all the rest.
Also, a lot of CCDs can see in to the near-infrared. So IR-enhanced viewing is also a distinct possibility.
Article Tesx (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Saturday October 14 2006, @08:12AM)
"Russian artists from Moscow presented in London the totally useless but somehow cool device - goggles that you can put on and feel yourself like a robot from a Terminator movie or like somebody else from "the cyberspace". See the video below:"
Thanks.
Re:World Cup in ASCII (Score:4, Informative)
Poor russians (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.infiltrated.net/)
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Re:Poor russians (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Saturday February 25 2006, @11:02PM)
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Synthetic Reality Interface Device Prototype. (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://thelazysci-fiauthor.blogspot.com/)
I don't need to list the plethora of uses for synthetic reality, but even in this nascent stage I could see the ability to increase and decrease contrast as useful - perhaps in searching around for something lost.
This is simply algorithms being applied to a video - with object recognition the potential is large.
Videolan has ascii output (Score:5, Interesting)
Cool but rather useless.
BTW for me at least, the OpenGL driver delivers a far better image under Vista than DirectX. Don't know if this is DRM related or not but the quality is far better.
Come on people (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Come on people (Score:5, Funny)
Done
No computer or OS? (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://dexplor.com/)
As far as being just a toy, this thing could actually be quite useful. It could be used to enhance vision, sort of like Geordi's visor in Star Trek. It could display things outside of human vision, or amplify small differences to make them more apparent. Of course it could be used for night vision too. Personally, I would be interested in the hardware if I write my own software / filters for it. The point is, with this type of augmented vision, the sky's pretty much the limit. Imagine if it was OCRing what you look at real-time, so that you could look at something, and the system could display additional information about uncommon words (nouns like place names, product names, etc).
How about the Photosynth demo [ted.com] Microsoft did, where they would take many 2D images of buildings, and reconstruct them in 3D, allowing the user to zoom in in massive detail (if someone had taken photos of that particular place). If that type of image recognition could be done real-time to match what you are currently looking at, then you could look at the inside of a building without entering it. Or zoom in or out, or pan or change your POV entirely, without actually moving your body.
Dan East
Quake 3 overlay (Score:3, Funny)
Say selective overlays for different people
Postman becomes zombies and add the sound effects for extra points
It would make my morning commute to work a little more fun
Probably require more CPU horsepower than that little unit could provide
and I suspect the batties would weigh a ton.
Copy on YouTube, which is not yet Slashdotted (Score:5, Informative)