I was googling for a cheap fisheye lens that could be used with a webcam and stumbled across this page: http://www.aggregate.org/DIT/peepfish/.  He just glues a regular front door peephole to the lens of the camera!  Brilliant!!!
Anybody care to calculate the relative depth needed to capture an arbitrary screen size with a 160+ degree viewing angle?  I’m going to go grab one after work today and see if I can get my LCD LLP enclosure to a depth of less than 1 foot.

Parker

You will have a huge distortion effect when using s fisheye lenses like that (points near the center will be more accurate than ones further out)...there is a tool somewhere on this forum to correct it though (I think), but cant remember where it is…

There’s another thread on this subject with the link to the barrel distortion filter.  I’m moving into that thread.

can you post the link of that thread then? thanks

Duh, sorry.  http://nuigroup.com/forums/viewthread/3539/

Parker - 19 November 2008 08:06 PM

I’m going to go grab one after work today and see if I can get my LCD LLP enclosure to a depth of less than 1 foot.

Parker

is it working??

I was testing the ms lifecam vx-6000 (71°) and the Sony PS3Eye (~75°).
On my 65cm high test table I can capture a ~90cm screen (L=~90cm, B= ~80cm).

Somebody knows some other wide angle webcams? (also with easily removeable ir-filters) (its not nessesary to capture this wide angle in both directions (L and B), because my table is a rectangle , bzw. 16:9), or other solutions? (yes, waiting for the new tbeta with multi-cam support :D )

Viper - 28 November 2008 04:52 PM

Parker - 19 November 2008 08:06 PM

I’m going to go grab one after work today and see if I can get my LCD LLP enclosure to a depth of less than 1 foot.

Parker

is it working??

I was testing the ms lifecam vx-6000 (71°) and the Sony PS3Eye (~75°).
On my 65cm high test table I can capture a ~90cm screen (L=~90cm, B= ~80cm).

Somebody knows some other wide angle webcams? (also with easily removeable ir-filters) (its not nessesary to capture this wide angle in both directions (L and B), because my table is a rectangle , bzw. 16:9), or other solutions? (yes, waiting for the new tbeta with multi-cam support :D )

Hey Viper, yes it works.  Check out the thread in the previous post for details.