Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Distance measuring with lasers
Message-ID: <1988Nov6.000420.15430@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3482@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 88 00:04:20 GMT

In article <3482@pt.cs.cmu.edu> nivek@rover.ri.cmu.edu (Kevin Dowling) writes:
>... In our set the laser scanner information is 
>sent to a frame buffer where the brightness on the screen corresponds 
>to distance. Looks neat cause close objects are dark and objects farther
>away get lighter and lighter...

Have you tried inverting the brightness scale?  Just curious -- I'd have
expected it to look better (to humans, of course) that way.
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