July 4th: Made the projector thing work in Blender!

This project is to make a camera with just a single photodetector. (Inspired by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH6VUs5u8k). Before designing and building the actual thing, I want to figure out how the code actually works. So I have decided to implement it using Blender and Python. First thing to do: Make a projector like thiing in blender. Got the thing to work. Got it to display pictures and videos. Can project images stuff onto objects now. Next would be to make a light sensor thing in blender using Python.

Total time spent: 1h

July 5th: Got a low-res version to work!

Started with implementing python scripts in Blender. Got a python script to generate a 4096 point scanning patterns, converted them to 30fps video, got the projector I made yesterday to project this video onto a 3d model of Doraemon to be scanned. Then a camera rendered each frame and the python script to calculate the sum of al pixel brightness in a given frame individually and reconstruct a image based on that data. Made it work with 64x64 low-res images. Will have to make higher res stuff tomorrow, along with prolly exploring Hadamard patterns.

Total time spent: 3h