OpenNI/NITE Installation on Windows May 2014 : PrimeSense was bought by Apple at the end of April, and the OpenNI.org website was shut down. Fortunately, several sites have set up archives of the old OpenNI and NITE software, such as Simple-OpenNI and Structure Sensor . When looking through these archives, it's important to remember that the code examples in my book use OpenNI version 1 . It's quite different from version 2, which sports many changes to the skeleton and hand detection functions, resulting in big changes to NITE as well. In other words, you need to find archive copies of version 1 of OpenNI and NITE to run my code. The following instructions explain how to do that. This page is written in the form of a checklist. If you prefer a wordier explanation, then please have a look at section 3 of the draft chapter . Remember that it refers to the now-defunct OpenNI website from 2012, so ignore any weblink inform...
The MIT Photonic-Bands ( MPB ) package is a free program for computing the band structures (dispersion relations) and electromagnetic modes of periodic dielectric structures, on both serial and parallel computers. This program computes definite-frequency eigenstates (harmonic modes) of Maxwell's equations in periodic dielectric structures for arbitrary wavevectors, using fully-vectorial and three-dimensional methods. It is especially designed for the study of photonic crystals (a.k.a. photonic band-gap materials), but is also applicable to many other problems in optics, such as waveguides and resonator systems. (For example, it can solve for the modes of waveguides with arbitrary cross-sections.) As complementary Meep package works for time-domain simulations, reflection/transmission spectra, etc. (MPB is frequency-domain; Meep is Time-domain.) There are two common computational approaches to studying dielectric structures such as photonic crystals: frequency-domain and time-domai...
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