Project 3: Looking at a Pixel
At this point, we’ve worked our way completely through this first basic example. You’ve learned how to include the Kinect SimpleOpenNI library in a Processing sketch, how to turn on access to both the RGB and depth images, how to update these images from the Kinect and how to draw them to the screen.
Now that we’ve got all that under our belt, it’s time to start learning more about the individual pixels that make up these images. I told you in the intro to this section that the color of each pixel in the depth image represents the distance of that part of the scene. And, on the other hand, each pixel of the color image will have three components, one each for red, green, and blue. Since we’ve now got an app running ...
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