WebPlotDigitizer v2

Finally, after several months of working on this on and off, I have finalized the second version of my first proper opensource, open to all project - WebPlotDigitizer

This project is basically a web app written using HTML5, Javascript and CSS3 to extract data from plots and maps. The website goes into all the details along with video tutorials etc. Currently, this works only with Firefox 3.6+ and Google Chrome 6+. That's mainly because other browsers are still getting their act together as far as HTML5 is concerned. I hear future versions of Safari and Opera will have the FileReader API on which the drag drop relies on and is the last piece of HTML5 that needs to be working on those browsers for this app to work.

This web app will have to compete with 20 or so native desktop applications which do the same stuff, but I think my web app beats most of them in usability and features. This web app should, in theory, do a lot better than those programs just because this does the job, it's free and runs on anything that has either Firefox or Chrome.

Here's a gif animation of a few screenshots:




The video tutorials for this app are available online here. Here's a sample of the basic X-Y plot tutorial:





This is also available as a Google Chrome web app. Yes! My first "app" :)

One Month Timelapse

The camera has been up for almost a month now. Here's a compilation of the daytime only pictures:





As you can see nothing really interesting happens. Also, this camera isn't exactly suitable for outdoor photography. I have taken down the camera now, but it was interesting to see a Pentium-II computer running for over a month taking 720p pictures without a hitch. Also, no powers cuts in 36 days. Wow.

Second Week Timelapse

It's amazing how fast everything got covered in snow.

One Week Timelapse

This is a timelapse video of a whole week (2/13/2011 to 2/20/2011) of leaving my webcam connected to my Pentium-II rig. The system is surprisingly stable and I am expecting some interesting stuff to come out of this in the future.

For this video, one picture was taken at every 7 min. (roughly) and played back at 8 frames per second. Therefore, 1 sec in video = 56 min. in real time.