[racket] webcam hooks in racket?

Great- thanks, all! I was leaning towards OpenCV since it looks like the
best opportunity to get to know the
ffi/unsafe<http://docs.racket-lang.org/foreign/index.html?q=ffi>
 module, and make something interesting at the same time. I'm sure I'll be
back with more questions any minute...

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Anthony Cowley <acowley at seas.upenn.edu>wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Ben Dean <benjamin.dean at aya.yale.edu>
> wrote:
> > Hmm, thanks, I really appreciate the help.  Obviously an oversight on my
> > part, but I'm targeting OSX and the built-in apple "iSight" or whatever
> they
>
> I heartily recommend OpenCV's highgui module. I've used this on Mac OS
> X and Linux for interfacing with various cameras with very little
> trouble, and written bindings to it for other languages. I haven't
> done so for Racket, but the C API is extremely friendly, so it's just
> a matter of cobbling together the necessary Racket FFI bits. It works
> great with the built-in iSight camera.
>
> Here's a relevant place in the OpenCV documentation:
> <
> http://opencv.willowgarage.com/documentation/c/highgui_reading_and_writing_images_and_video.html#capturefromcam
> >
>
> Anthony
>
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