Download and Installation - aaronkarp123/HaptEQ GitHub Wiki

Below are the instructions for downloading and installing the HaptEQ plugin.

Before Installation...

At the present time, HaptEQ only installs when the following condition(s) are satisfied:

  • You are running MacOS 10.5 or higher

At the present time, HaptEQ only works successfully when the following condition(s) are satisfied:

  • You have an external webcam
  • You have a flat white matte board that covers the entire webcam screen area
  • You have a colored chain, or some similar "drawing" device

Installing HaptEQ

First, download and install the HaptEQ pkg file.

Latest download the latest release here: HaptEQ Releases Package

Installing OpenCV Libraries

If you do not have XCode installed, please use the following tutorial to do so before continuing:

[XCode Installation] (http://railsapps.github.io/xcode-command-line-tools.html)

Next, you need to install the required OpenCV libraries.

Open up a shell terminal on your local machine

Install Homebrew with the following command:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Install and link numpy with the following commands:

pip install numpy

brew link numpy

NOTE: If you receieve an error with the phrase Could not symlink bin/f2py , installing using the following command instead: brew link --overwrite numpy

Install OpenCV with the following two commands:

brew tap homebrew/science

brew install opencv

Now you're good to go! Head on over to the Usage page to see how to run the program.