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| Preface | |
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| What Is the Kinect? | |
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| How Does It Work? Where Did It Come From? | |
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| Kinect Artists | |
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| Working with the Depth Image | |
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| Images and Pixels | |
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| Project 1: Installing the SimpleOpenNI Processing Library | |
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| Project 2: Your First Kinect Program | |
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| Project 3: Looking at a Pixel | |
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| Converting to Real-Wdrld Distances | |
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| Project 4: A Wireless Tape Measure | |
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| Project 5: Tracking the Nearest Object | |
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| Projects | |
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| Project 6: Invisible Pencil | |
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| Project 7: Minority Report Photos | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Working with Point Clouds | |
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| What You'll Learn in This Chapter | |
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| Welcome to the Third Dimension | |
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| Drawing Our First Point Cloud | |
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| Making the Point Cloud Move | |
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| Viewing the Point Cloud in Color | |
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| Making the Point Cloud Interactive | |
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| Projects | |
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| Project 8: Air Drum Kit | |
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| Project 9: Virtual Kinect | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Working with the Skeleton Data | |
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| A Note About Calibration | |
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| Stages in the Calibration Process | |
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| User Detection | |
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| Accessing Joint Positions | |
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| Skeleton Anatomy Lesson | |
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| Measuring the Distance Between Two Joints | |
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| Transferring Orientation in 3D | |
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| Background Removal, User Pixels, and the Scene Map | |
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| Tracking Without Calibration: Hand Tracking and Center of Mass | |
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| Projects | |
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| Project 10: Exercise Measurement | |
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| Project 11: "Stay-in' Alive": Dance Move Triggers MP3 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Scanning for Fabrication | |
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| Intro to Modelbuilder | |
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| Intro to MeshLab | |
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| Making a Mesh from the Kinect Data | |
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| Looking at Our First Scan | |
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| Cleaning Up the Mesh | |
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| Looking at Our Corrected Model | |
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| Prepping for Printing | |
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| Reduce Polygons in MeshLab | |
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| Printing Our Model on a MakerBot | |
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| Sending Our Model to Shapeways | |
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| Conclusion: Comparing Prints | |
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| Using the Kinect for Robotics | |
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| Forward Kinematics | |
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| Inverse Kinematics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion: What's Next? | |
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| Beyond Processing: Other Frameworks and Languages | |
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| Topics in 3D Programming to Explore | |
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| Ideas for Projects | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Index | |