Optical positioning reference

This object was designed such that a single image of it contains the information necessary to calculate the relative location of the camera used to capture the image. It is intended to be printed using a standard colour printer, and then folded into shape and affixed to e.g. a wall etc.

This design was inspired by the potential of remote-controlled, camera-equipped vehicles such as the Parrot AR drone (http://www.parrot.com/). While these systems can theoretically be fully computer controlled