I am so relieved to have the cameras illustrating what they can see! This is something i've been struggling with for quite some time now and with its completion I can once again start working toward completing other requirements along with starting my presentation which will be Saturday. Very busy week ahead.

After a few solid meetings last week I thought I had a good plan moving forward for figuring out the bitmap and writing it to the screen efficiently. Unfortunately, I can't convert a type color to an int in my array so that is out the window. When I attempted to use to .toARGB() function to turn it to an int it put in random -1 values in the array where there was not actually white lines. Might have to continue on with the original plan in order to try to get it presentation ready. 

I have been working with different ways to illustrate what each camera can see. After failed attempts trying to cast lines to each point and color in the triangles created I have settled on using an array. It took me awhile but I was finally able to get the screen to copy to a bitmap so I can use the GetPixel function. However, as I traverse the bitmap trying to find white which represents the walls, it appears every time I am getting a different spot where the white begins. I'm not sure what is causing this problem but plan to upload the project to the drive and visit soon.

Last week going into this week was met with numerous obstacles. I was able to get my ray casting algorithm up and running so I can tell if a point is within the polygon now but shortly after I was bombarded with syllabus changes in my other classes leading to multiple exams and assignments. Tomorrow I will be finishing those up and I should be able to start grinding away at coloring what my cameras can see. The in class session we did has left me with a few great ideas for the path I should take moving forward. I am fairly confident that once this requirement is set the rest of the math should fall into place.  

Last week was slow for me in regards to my project. With two research projects breathing down my neck for other classes, I only put the drawing of the layout onto a bitmap. In doing so I hoped to rid my project of the flickering that occurs as it repaints the screen. Sadly, it didn't fix the problem one-hundred percent but it is ten times better than before and that is a win in my book. I'm confident with those other projects out of the way that This week will hold good progress!

Another week down and more progress to show. I have cameras that are able to move in real time and draw lines from. Although this still needs to be tweaked it is good progress. I met with Dr. McVey a couple times and have a clear path forward. My next steps are to redo the drawing of the layout onto a bitmap so that it is not redrawing it every time and instead can just be pasted onto the screen. Without the bitmap the layout is extremely choppy and this solution will fix that. After the bitmap is done, I will be creating an array around my building layout that will assist in figuring out which pixels need to be colored and which don't. 

Last weeks progress went well and I picked up on quite a few tips from our mini poster board sessions. I did hit a snag when trying to allow a user to manually draw multiple obstacles because every time a new line is painted the screen needs to repaint everything again. I plan on moving forward with trying to get the cameras showing what they can see this week and stopping in for a chat on my bump soon. I also added a clear button to the application which allows the user to reset the canvas if they screw up. I'm optimistic that I will have my second requirement completed by the end of this week.

This week was one of great productivity! I began my project using a console application which I quickly realized was the wrong move. After scrapping everything I made the moved to a windows form application which has brought me great success so far. Much research was done into C# and its graphics which has brought me to the point of allowing a user to manually draw their layout. I am hopeful that I will be able to move onto my second task of placing cameras and having them show what they can see inside the layout by mid week. 
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Welcome to the start of my project. I will be doing my capstone on an old camera placement problem that requires me to make sure all of the space inside a room is covered by a security camera. As of now I have done a little research and started this website. Cheers to many more blogs to come.