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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Senior Project......
Message-ID: <7669@well.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 88 07:45:21 GMT
References: <5435@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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In article <5435@louie.udel.EDU> BPJ0%LEHIGH.BITNET@ibm1.cc.lehigh.edu (Binoy James, Lehigh University.) writes:
>I'm considering my senior project
>and I've reached two conclusions.  One I want to use my amiga and two
>it must be interesting enough to keep me trying to finish it in a year.
>ok?  Also it must be hardware based.
>
>Now any brilliant suggestions that would be fun.  Any wacky, innovative,
>or stupid ideas are welcome.  I would be interested in doing something
>maybe robot-based, maybe with a tinkling of AI.  [ ... ]

	Buy the following items:

	Two 3" color or B/W monitors
	Two Amigas
	A position/orientation sensor with six degrees of freedom
	A mess of TTL parts
	Wire
	A motorcycle helmet
	Krazy glue

	Glue the position/orientation sensor to the top center of the helmet.
Glue the monitors to the helmet faceplate so that they end up where your
eyes would be.  Wire up the helmet.  Plug one Amiga into the left monitor,
and the other Amiga into the right monitor.  Plug the position/orientation
sensor into both Amigas.

	Now, write software to read VideoScape files and display them in
realtime wireframe (realtime for this application is >= 4 fps).  When this
is done, add software to read the position/orientation sensor, convert it
into camera coordinates for each eye, and project the images onto the
correct monitors.

	You may use 68020-based systems, and 1M of CHIP RAM.

	Extra credit:  Connect the position/orientation sensor to only one
Amiga, and communicate the data to the other Amiga via a high-speed data
path.

	Guaranteed Master's Degree:  Make this setup work with Starglider II.

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