counting change
Thursday, March 26th, 2009As an in-class exercise for Spatial Media we were asked to develop a program which would identify coins in a series of supplied images and tally up their total value. In one hour.
Since time was limited, I decided to use pixel count as a rough estimate of each coin’s size. This works very reliably with the sample set of images, but that’s likely because the images consist of duplicated coins and are on a solid white background. Several additional methods wold likely need to be implemented to deal with actual situations. (Code below) (more…)