OpenCV is an awesome Swiss-army steam-shovel (thank you Willow Garage!)
In the 90's, there was Kai's Power Goo (now owned by Corel) and probably something similar used by Conan O'Brien's art dept. to produce the "If They Mated" segments. It's such a shame tools owned by big companies are effectively locked away from ever being marketed again by asserting IP rights.
I really think intellectual property needs a principle similar to adverse possession [0]; that is, if it's not being actively used in a meaningful, sustained venture, another shop can reboot it. (Giving capitalism the right to fork.) Btw, I'm not the first, nor the last, to conceive of this. [1]
In the 90's, there was Kai's Power Goo (now owned by Corel) and probably something similar used by Conan O'Brien's art dept. to produce the "If They Mated" segments. It's such a shame tools owned by big companies are effectively locked away from ever being marketed again by asserting IP rights.
I really think intellectual property needs a principle similar to adverse possession [0]; that is, if it's not being actively used in a meaningful, sustained venture, another shop can reboot it. (Giving capitalism the right to fork.) Btw, I'm not the first, nor the last, to conceive of this. [1]
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession
1. http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/articles/pdf/v16/16HarvJLTech327...