Inspiration

That Tolkin thing, what with the big eye.

What it does

The eye of Sauron remains constantly staring at you.

How we built it

Utilising openCV image recognition to track the faces, we calculate the direction the eye should be looking and send this data to a unity runtime which displays the eye.

Challenges we ran into

OpenGL is a shitshow. Unity is a bitch Coming to a hackathon without a working OS Dependencies are a pain, especially when running python as a C# subprocess.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Solid tracking of faces and managing to get something working.

What I learned

That 3D graphics are scary.

What's next for Eye of Sauron

Prettyfication/Ensure we have a backup if unity is a nogo.

Built With

Submitted to

CovHack2020

Created by

I did the face tracking and coordinate processing.

It was going so well until I decided to hep with front end, where the pain is concentrated.

James Frost
I have been going through the process of working out how the hell to map the face tracking to the actual eye of Sauron. Tried OpenGL but that was too primitive and required too much time to get a viable product. Unity was our next choice yet I was impeded by a hack job of an attempt to get a python thread to interact with the C# thread properly. In the end we just worked together on a basic eye (if it can be called that by now) in MatPlotLib. Yes, we're using graphing software to render Sauron.

Jospeh Fagan