Yesterday, we primarily learned about C++ as well as how to operate the structured-light 3D scanning device that we will be using to conduct our projects over the next weeks. I will talk more about the 3D scanner since I have prior programming experience which made learning the basics of C++ relatively easy.
The scanning system consists of a camera and projector that is connected to a laptop computer. After turning on the camera and testing that it works, I take a set of pictures of the object I want to scan. Then, I process the pictures and use a software to visualize the processed results.
While I was learning how to do each of these steps, I noticed that the programs that did each step were found in locations scattered throughout the laptop. Because of that, I took notes from my notebook to remember what I needed to do in the future. I don’t think that cleaning up the software is our priority for this summer. However, I hope I can spend a little bit of time documenting these steps so that I can help future students build on our work this summer.