Leaky window

Leaky Window

Inspiration

We wanted to build a small project that we could use to learn a little bit about computer vision. We thought about ways to incorporate it and were inspired by some of the simple games made using pygame.

What it does

The goal of the game is for the player to cover up the leaking holes that appear on the screen. If the screen fills up with water, the game is over. The player's score is determined by the amount of time that they can last before the screen fills up.

How we built it

We used python as our language of choice. We chose to use pygame as the game's engine and opencv to track hand movements on the webcam.

Challenges we ran into

We couldn't test the program on multiple devices because of the lack of multiple webcams. We worked around this by assigning a small task to work on and to check back in once we finished that task.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We had an issue where the output visual of the webcam would show a different position from where the holes on the screen were, and we fixed it by mirroring and shifting the tracking position.

What we learned

We were able to learn about how pygame's graphics engine works, and how to implement a computer vision model that could track movements. We also figured out how to track and update values that are updated on a frame by frame basis. This was a completely different way of thinking than the kinds of programs that we wrote before.