Re: reverse engineering pwcx

Albert Cahalan
2004-08-30T12:53:47Z

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 03:42, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Helge Hafting wrote:
>
> > There's no need for faith or speculation here.
> > Put the chip under a microscope and count the pixels,
> > or rather measure their size and estimate their number.
>
> The lavarnd guy did and counted 160x120:
>
> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=119578&cid=10091208

Unless he explains a bit better, there's no reason
to assume he counted correctly. There may be a larger
pattern that was counted by mistake. For example,
there may be 160x120 red-sensing sub-pixels. He could
have counted only that.

Also, there is more than one type of sensor that can
be fitted to these webcam chips. They may vary.