Comments on: Joystiq E3 Party Playtest Metrics and Pics

By: Paul W

Paul W — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:58:45 +0000

Late to the party – but some of the Canons (S95 in particular, which I’ve just bought) have a ‘candlelight’ mode which does exactly what you mentioned in the footnote – downsample to 2MP and combine pixels for better low-light performance :-)

By: checker

checker — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:15:41 +0000

Yeah, Canons have awesome firmware hacks. I use a Panasonic Lumix for the awesome 12x optical zoom and 30fps 720p, but no firmware hacks that I know of. :(

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:59:06 +0000

Woops. got to read closer. “I don’t think exists for MY camera”

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:58:00 +0000

Not so! Canon has a hacked firmware!

CHDK.
http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

By: checker

checker — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:20:35 +0000

The windowed side is the best one for getting a view of both bookshelves, though, right down the wall, so it’s actually pretty heavilty utilized, at least anecdotally speaking. But you’re right, I should definitely check that assumption with the data. I can overlay all the laser info to make a Sniper heat map, which is definitely a cool idea.

By: Corey

Corey — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:11:35 +0000

Sorry not the angled window, but the windowed corner of the room.

By: Corey

Corey — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:09:46 +0000

I think you will come to find the collection of sniper scope data invaulable whe it comes to level design, and arranging objectives. Case in point: the 2 most difficult objectives for spy to complete are those that are closest to the window, with relatively little obscuring or distracting the sniper.
Additionally there is very little use for the area by the angled window.
Since I am not in the beta, yet;), I can only conjecture that there are minimal spy objectoves that require the sniper to utilize that particular view.

By: checker

checker — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:43:28 +0000

My crazy idea originally was to feed it all into a flash app that would draw the time lapse of the events over the level, but then I realized I just need to make a spectator mode and record the whole thing! So, I’ll use the spectator recordings for any qualitative info, and try to limit myself to using the journals for datamining types of things.

By: Alan Au

Alan Au — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:30:25 +0000

I’m thinking about interesting ways to visualize the sniper data you’re collecting. I guess my initial thought is to farm it out to one of the local university visual design students or something. (Uh, they do have a project-based visual design program, no?) Failing that, I would start by highlighting the info you’re already collecting. Alternatively, maybe take a page from Valve’s TF2 heat maps, so: successful shot, failed shot, time spent at each view, etc.?

By: checker

checker — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:33:06 +0000

Yeah, I’ve thought about downsampling (it’d have to be additive, not filtered) but these cheap cameras apply so many “noise reduction” algorithms in low light situations that I’m not sure it would produce anything useful. Plus, getting raw out is usually impossible unless you have a hacked bios, which I don’t think exists for my camera. Etc. etc. Sad.