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From: spector@mimsy.umd.edu (Lee Spector)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: quick & dirty frame grabbers?
Message-ID: <33853@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 2 May 91 02:09:48 GMT
Reply-To: spector@mimsy.umd.edu (Lee Spector)
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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I'm looking for a frame grabber with the following specs:

  1) captures at least 1 frame/second
  2) possibly very low resolution (16 X 16 X 1 would do!) if this
     will help to get the speed; color is not important.
  3) accessible from some programming language; must be able to 
     examine the image data structure without disk I/O.  Prefer
     access from HyperCard or Lisp, but Pascal or C would do.
  4) as inexpensive as possible.

Something really low-end should be able to do the job IF the
designers allowed for a faster/low-res mode, and IF they provide
a programming interface of some sort.  The MacWarehouse catalog
contains a listing for "Computer Eyes - B&W" for just $199.
They seem to say that a capture takes 6 seconds, but perhaps there's 
a fast/low-res mode? They don't mention anything about access/
control from programs. If anybody knows more about "Computer Eyes"
or about any other relatively cheap (< $1000) frame grabbers
with programming interfaces & the rest, I'd love to hear from
you!  Please email; I'll summarize responses to the net.

 Thanks!  -Lee Spector (spector@cs.umd.edu)