Alright so this is our Augmented Reality Sandbox.
It's an idea and all of the software was built
by the University of California Davis (UC
Davis).
What it does is it uses the 3D capability
of the Xbox Kinect camera to measure the distance
or the height of the sand and it projects
the topographic image on to the sand in a
real time scenario.
So you can actually see the iso lines or the
contour lines changing in real time as well
as the color of the sand being projected on
to the sand.
So the Kinect will read the depth of the sand
so if I were to make a river you can see it
adds blue for the water or I could build up
a mountain with the sand and it projects the
topo lines there.
So you can see blue is the lower elevations
and it goes up green, yellow, orange, red
and then it stops at white.
So this is the Kinect sensor reading the depth
of the sand and depending on if you're mountains
and stuff are really steep the lines would
be closer together versus something that if
it was more of like a rolling hill your iso
lines would be farther apart.
