Star Gazer

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  Our Constellation Locator for Ursa Major

Inspiration

The night sky conains infinitely many stars. With modern computation technology, our team dreamed of being able to identify any given constellation.

What it does

It is a picture game, where a user is prompted to look for a constellation in random, and upon using the camera to snap it, the app either confirms or rejects it to be correct.

How we built it

We used Android Studio to integrate the java back end algorithms. The algorithems themselves were built using depth first search in order to locate distinct stars.

Challenges we ran into

The only part we still need to expand on is the integration via a java server in order to proccess through our image. Android was not completely compatible with all of the custom classes we had imported.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Our depth first search algorithms produces a beautiful "beaded" picture of the nightsky.

What we learned

How to use Android Studio - this is our first hackathon

What's next for Star Gazer

Integrate a java server successfully.

Built With

• android-studio
• java