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runako
on June 11, 2012
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PointerPointer: points to your cursor
Interesting example of how a hard problem (image recognition/understanding) can be faked for some cases by solving an easier problem (lookup table, a few hours of manual intervention.)
taylorbuley
on June 11, 2012
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Seeing
http://www.pointerpointer.com/gridPositions.json
really took away some of the magic for me. Still, very clever and shows that web magic can be in the eye of the mouse-holder!
ma2rten
on June 12, 2012
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Erm.. even there were some computer vision algorithm involved, he would probably want to run it offline.
ajasmin
on June 11, 2012
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So there's no advanced computer vision algorithms involved :(
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