Computer Vision in 1982 Using Altair Computers and a Cromemco Cyclops Camera
In the context of my life right now, this makes me pretty sad. Seeing effort, ingenuity and engineering leap the many hurdles of that era and build something that still seems remarkable to me because of prolonged exposure to the lack of talent, knowledge, skill, vision and perseverance in my corner of industry (the overlap of &quot;web development&quot; and &quot;enterprise IT&quot;).<p>If the footage here was taken with modern camera equipment so I could pass it off as being from today, I feel like I could probably show it to colleagues, make up a story about how it takes some servos designed by Elon Musk, a quadcopter with a 4k camera that hovers in place above the maze (for whatever reason), uploading the footage (with no regard to latency) to a &quot;Deep Learning&quot; algorithm invented by Google and motion control algorithm designed by Boston Dynamics that &quot;only&quot; uses 8 GPUs and &quot;only&quot; costs a few dollars an hour running in Amazon Web Services without having many questions to answer about any part of that.