12:23 PM 3/28/02
So we're on technique 5. In this technique, further grouping will occur.

While I'm waiting for a response on compiling the 3d engine, I can be working on getting shapes out of the image.

I figure the most straightforward way to do this is to use technique #3, to get the image down into blended format. Then I'll search every edge, and see if the color difference is past a certain range.

So for technique 5, it will be a function that takes an image and a range.

I definately need to take a new picture before doing this... If you would note, the color difference between my hand and the wall(background) isn't of great contrast.

I want to make things easy on myself, so I want as much contrast as possible... Oh here it gets fun... In addition to getting the background, I should also design a uniform. A uniform that contrasts colors as much as possible. This uniform will end up looking dumb, but will make my work easy... Later I can worry about making a cool looking uniform... I need to make it now to be functional, and yet I can wear it if I go to the next E3 >:)

Ok, time to sit down and design. Its actually a cool mathmatical puzzle, trying to see what colors of clothing I have and calculating where I can place it on my body
Body places I want to contrast: Feet, hands, belt, upperlegs, lowerlegs, Torso,upper arms, lower arms. My face and hair is gonna stay as is, I'm not going punk for this... just yet >:) Maybe come E3, my hair will be dyed orange, and I'll spike it in a Guile cut or something. Well I found the best contrast I could for the moment.
**** I also came up with a great idea. Instead of coding algorithms for all sorts of different camera angles, just use one solid set. But later when the multiple camera and network code comes along, merely set the cameras up at different angles and that is what angle its rotated in memory :) Ie, 4 cameras set up at opposite sides in a square. Each image is interpreted to 3d on its own, but then all 4 of the 3d models are then compared against each other to judge the correct fit. Very simple ****
Anyway, its time to take some pictures and figure out how to set up my first studio. This is gonna be weird since my computer is in one room, and the studio will be in the other. I think I'll place my second computer in the other room, and have it set up kind of like a camera studio would...
Ok, so computer failure strikes again! I'm trying to detect a camera on my old computer and it finds some weird motherboard stuff... Like a fool, I say its cool to install... Here it makes my computer reboot, install a zillion motherboard things, disable my video card down to vga, my cdroms can't be found and when I reboot again, it says windows isn't working. I'm about pissed now. I have to spend an hour or two just getting the computer working. No I'm beyond pissed.
1:11 PM 3/29/02 still wrestling with the computer.
1:17 PM 3/29/02 still wrestling, freaking reboots take 2 minutes.
Dammit! This is going to force me to reinstall windows, then redo all the driver files, since I can't access the CDROM. Thank you once again Microsoft. Hooray, I can't even access the CRROMS in safe mode... They show up as hardware, but Microsoft's Windows can't seem to find them. Well I guess I can still work with just one computer, but setting things up will be difficult.
1:24 PM 3/29/02 Taking a break because I'm about pissed.
8:14 AM 3/31/02 Ok, I toyed with my system configuration... Apparently my cdrom drives were checkmarked with disable. I unchecked this, and now I have access to the computer. I think I will now reinstall all my driver files. I will be able to do this, and it should be done in less than an hour when I motivate myself to actually do it.