I am trying to do some abstractions around the pdp_freenect object, to process the depth information and turn it into a 3D scene.

Have played a bit with [pdp2gem] in combination with [imageVert] but this stuff is not really what I want.

First of all the [imageVert] is not able to be textured, or otherwise manipulated, beside [translate] and [scale] etc
Second, it seems to not be really what I want.

I am not clear about the route I specifically want to take, but I feel I want to do something for each pixel in the 640x480 output.

Been looking at the numerous objects to get data out of pix/pdp surfaces, but I look up to the task of running with 640*480 [pix_data] objects hooked to [cube] for example.
Even lowering the resolution to 160*120 makes it a lot of objects ..

[pix_dump] looked fascinating, but crashed pd on the smallest images I feed it ..

There must be some better way that I'm missing?
Please advice me into a proper direction

btw, it looks pretty cool already, but not cool enough

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/kinect-imageVert.png

Well, some little productive night here.

Now I'm using pix_video to feed 40*30 [cube] objects into a GEM scene through [pix_data] and [translateXYZ] which is sorta working.

Besides the fact that I'm only seeing one cube

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/pix_data_test1.pd

hi
id like to try this pdp_freenect object.
i managed to install it from ppa but pd doesnt recognize it somehow. can you give me a tip how to solve this?
thx

did you install libfreenect before compiling the newest pidip external?

I grabbed libfreenect from https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect.git

i missed that one.
i failed using libfreenect and openNI at the same time before.
i think they use different drivers for kinect.
i ll leave that one for later, as i need openNI rightnow.
thnx and much success.

and have a look at these shaders.
www.3rd-eye.at/GLSL.zip
there is one that does displacement on a meshsquare according to the greyvalue of textureinput.
should do the same like the image you posted on the GPU.

Well, GLSL is still pretty much over my head, and before advancing to the next abstraction I would still like to try to get this working.

Attached my latest attempt (still renders just one cube )

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/pix_data_test2.zip

Oh seems like [repeat] and [separator] are really all that is needed

This is sorta my final post here to this thread, unless something says something cools

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/pix_data_test4.pd

And a screenshot

I'm so happy this works!

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/check_it_out_with_kinect.png