Double-Pendulum

Code to track the movements of a double pendulum

How to use

• Clone the repo

• Create a python virtual environment

  python3 -m venv venv
  

• Install the dependecies from the requirements.txt file

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• To run the tracking algorithm in real time, using webcam run

  python3 tracking.py
  

  • To run the tracking algorithm in an video file, run the previous command with the -v or --video flag.

  python3 tracking.py -v "path/to/the/video/file"
  

  • Add the -b or --buffer flag to the previous command to control the number of tracking values. Default buffer value is 64, eg:

  python3 tracking.py -b 128
  

  • Use p to pause and play and q to quit.