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Work was unfulfilling at the time and this intern and I had a great idea: to re-purpose a spare iMac along with some software to do motion tracking through the built-in video camera and thereby direct the gaze of this freakishly creepy girl (seen below, staring at the mouse while I dragged a screenshot rectangle around her) as people walked across the line of sight of the iMac.

Work subsequently became fulfilling before I had the opportunity to finish the project, so it just got mothballed like so many other projects. Whatever.

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CreepyGirl-20080412-1.zip

The basic code is in place for analyzing two images, finding differences between them, grouping those differences into objects and determining which object is the best one to follow - but it is far from working. Tollerances for what qualifies as a "change" still need a lot of work.