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0 pointsPaulHoule5y ago0 comments

I think I will.

An ordinary camera would work if mounted rigidly to the car, you could shoot a video and then take out the center line after the fact. 55 miles/hour is about 80 ft/sec so the horizontal resolution is a little bit more than a foot with a 60 fps video, you could make out houses but not read house numbers.

I think most webcams have a low-level interface that would let you read out part of the display without reading the rest so getting a better frame rate could be done at low cost too.

I think I'm going to try taking pictures of clouds first...

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tomglynch5y ago· 1 in thread

Come to think of it, what you're describing is pretty similar to a panorama photo

PaulHouleOP5y ago

There is a whole family of "algorithms" for putting together a sequence of images, for instance, if a camera at the side of the road took a slice of pixels at a 45 degree angle you would get a picture of any car (esp license plate) or person who went by, but you would not get a video showing what they did in any detail.

Panorama mode is trying to make something that looks like "a good image", you would want to keep "tack sharp" if the source material is "tack sharp."

If you have 1000s of photographs of a scene you can reference them to each other and build a 3-d model and then synthesize many images you might want to see but it won't be "tack sharp" it will be a video game.

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