Sunday, 14 May 2006
Webcam up and running
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As wished by D. G. and S. B. (initials interchanged for privacy reasons), I wanted to install my webcam in the sauna. (Un)fortunately, the cable was way to short (and what's more, the camera would probably melt in seconds - I suspect somebody fiddled on the thermostats). And: it would be pretty time consuming to program an algorithm that covers delicate parts of the live stream with the almost fish tanga. That's why you have to live with sporadic live pics from our office: open webcam.
On the left, you see some output from the webcam. The snapshot has been encoded solely with characters. That's called ASCII arts. An interesting software project that provides a character based video codec can be found here - just in case you want to watch a movie in your terminal.
Posted at 22:33 by Thomas in Tvärminne | Comments[0]