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Distance Markers

By Kollisteph on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 17:04
Hi! Are there any methods available for calculating the distance between the marker an the Smartphone? The ARToolKit provide many methods like calculating size of a marker or number of pixels in the labeled region who helps calculating the distance. Perhaps anybody knows how to get the distance easily? Thanks Steph

You can grab position values from the modelview matrix and get the distance from the magnitude. The modelview matrix represents the orientation of the trackable with the camera at the origin.