[ODE] pan tilt camera in ode

[Thomas Riga]

Hi,

I want to implement a pan-tilt camera into my ode project, so as to
provide my simulated agent with vision. The most obvious way to do it is
to adjust the viewpoint with dsSetViewPoint to the coordinates and
orientation of the agent's head, draw all objects, and then use the
resulting bit map as visual input. But this seems rather computationally
expensive. Does any of you know better ways to implement a vision system
with ode?

Thomas Riga
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School of Computing, Communication and Electronics
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