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When I use the LEGO camera, I have shadows across my images. What can I do to get rid of these?


23rd of April, 2010

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If you have a lot of dark spots in your image then it is a good idea to build some sort of enclosed structure for your light.  This is so that it will be isolated from extraneous light.

Here is a picture of several Lego bricks with very bad shadows:

camera_housing_pic_1.jpg


These are two pictures of the light box I built for the camera:

camera_housing_pic_2.jpg

camera_housing_pic_3.jpg


As a light source you can use anything that is handy, like a flashlight, as long as it is a consistent light source that you can adjust to get rid of the shadows.

Here is what the final image looked like:

camera_housing_pic_4.jpg


The reason the end picture is superior is that the light box has cut out all of the shadows.  This means that when running real time image processing (for example: a large green brick means go backwards to the left) it will be easier to get consistent results in vision center.


 



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