LINQ
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Over the weekend, I had more fun exploring the use of Kinect with AutoCAD. It was prompted by an email I had from a UK-based creative team who are interested in the potential of capturing time-lapse point clouds using Kinect. They were curious whether the quality of data coming from the Kinect device would be adequate for doing some interesting trompe l'oeil video compositions. I started by taking the code from last week's Kinect post: I removed the code related to gesture detection and beefed up the point-cloud related implementation to deal with composite point clouds that are built up…
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This request came in over the weekend: There is a useful object snap in AutoCAD for the mid point of 2 selected points. I would like a midpoint (average) of 3 (or more) points. Could this work in 3D as well as 2D? It's useful when drawing building surveys, often you triangulate a point from several and there are often 'minimal' differences in the dimension and you just take the average. Given the fact we're actually talking about an arbitrary number of points that will almost certainly not belong to a single entity, object snaps are probably neither the easiest…
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I owe Chris Kratz a huge thanks for inspiring me to do more with LINQ. This post uses LINQ to provide more elegant solutions to a couple of problems described in previous posts. The code in today's post is probably my second brief foray into the world of LINQ. The comments Chris posted on the last post prompted me to spend a little time looking at LINQ over the weekend, and I really like it. I'd heard before that "LINQ is really just functional programming", and in many ways I see that more clearly now, myself: the set of higher-order…
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I know, I know... I said I'd be posting on IronRuby, but yet again I got distracted <sigh>. Back to that next week, I promise. The good news is that, once again, I managed to get distracted by something pretty cool. 🙂 Earlier in the week I'd stumbled across an article mentioning the Bing API (currently in version 2.0), which allows you to perform programmatic web searches using various web-service related technologies, such as REST, JSON & SOAP. I played around with that, for a while, importing the Bing web service into different versions of Visual Studio (both of which…