Rhinoceros-5-Depth-Map-From-Image

@author: Greg King

This is a Java program that creates a depth map based on the luminance of a pixel in an image. The program does the following things.

--- 1. Accepts the user input for an image (Keep the image down to about 100 x 100 px unless you have a serious machine)

--- 2. Stores the image dimensions and creates a 2d array with the same dimensions of the image

--- 3. Stores the average luminance of each pixel in the respective coordinate in the 2d array that was created

--- 4. Runs a simple blur effect on the image.

--- 5. Writes commands in a text document that creates curves of every row and column in the dimensions of the image and writes the average luminance as the coordinate of the z point in the curve

--- 6. Creates a Network Surface and scales it down to a usable size. The program leaves the wire mesh behind.

There are a few things you need to easily run this program. There is no GUI as of yet, but I typically run this program with

a version of BlueJ that has been provided by Duke Software Team for open source use that can be found here...

"http://www.dukelearntoprogram.com/downloads/bluej.php?course=2"

If you download this version of BlueJ it will come with the library provided by Duke's software team that is used in the program. ("edu.duke.*")

If you know how to import that library into your usual IDE it can also be found on the same URL provided above.

If you plan to use the BlueJ environment to implement this program and are new the the BlueJ environment you can implement this program through these steps...

--- 1. Download all the files in this branch of the repository on GitHub and put them all into a single folder.

--- 2. Open the BlueJ environment and press "ctrl + o" to open the folder you just put all of the assets in.

--- ---(The folder should show up with the BlueJ logo on it)

--- 3. Compile the program by right clicking on the box that says "DepthMap" on it, and clicking Compile.

--- 4. Create a new instance of the program by right clicking on the box again and select "new DepthMap()" and press "Ok" on the naming prompt.

--- 5. A red box on the bottom left of your window should appear that bears the name of what was in the naming prompt.

--- 6. Right click on the red box and select "void makeMap()"

--- 7. A prompt will come up allowing you to select your image.

--- 8. The program will run and create a text file called "textFile.txt" in the same folder that you opened in BlueJ.

--- 9. Open Rhinoceros 5 and type "ReadCommandFile" into the command line. It will prompt you to select your new text file from the program folder

--- 10. The program will start to build your depth map.