Then it snapped in my brain what if this technique would be used with a camera system to expand its FOV or even create Stereo Imaging. My first Idea was a system where the mirror would spin around the camera. And while it spins the camera has a track of the mirrors position because the mirror is controlled by a servo. So OpenCV could select the mirror percisly to put its image in the right context, that was the idea in my head atleast I had no clue of OpenCV back then.
2D viewing paths traced outward from the camera; light travels in reverse.
So this was the idea i had in my head, so lets plan the next steps. First we going to look at solutions of other people. A paper on Stereoscopy [1] expanded my idea into areas i haven’t taken in account yet modelling 3D was also a good option and also led to an idea to combine the movement of a vehicle the camera is attached to with Image Processing to create a 3D image instead with mirrors, but lets stick to the mirror idea first.
The plan is pretty clear, use a camera fix a mirror to motor with a contraption that the motor is right below the camera, but holds the piece in a distance to the camera. So now iam gonna destroy one of the mirrors inside my room to have a workable piece, with right size for the contraption.
The result i suspect is that i can create a extended image/ spatial image through this technique think a panoramic shot with gaps.
references
- Nene & Nayar. Stereo with mirrors (1998). ↩