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[sasman]

Hi i test fired a few round stars last night and found that some failed to ignite ..
I made a simple star mine using a 75mm Dia Cardboard tube 18" long. placed about 50 stars in a paper tissue sprinkled a bit of FFFG on them then placed it in the Mortar used about 3 oz of FFG for lift. .

.The mortar went off with a satisfying Crack and shot the stars to about 60 or 70 feet ,made 3 firings with different batch of stars..When i got back and watched the video i counted how many stars had ignited and i counted about 20 thats about 30 that failed to ignite very poor... Now i was thinking about counting the stars if there was a program or adobe photoshop plugin that can count the stars for me?... has anyone come across this type of program?.. that way when i video fireworks i could digitize them and anazlye the the footage .. im sure i have read some where thats this can be done? Anyone got any info?

[adamw]

Unless you have a high-end system, with hi-res camera etc etc I'd say very very hard. Even my Organic Image Capture Devices (eyes) can get confused when trying to count things like lit stars, especially when moving.

[Dan]

sounds like a facial recognition program but for stars

wouldnt it be easier and not to mention cheaper to just pause the screen on the tv and take a dry erase maker and mark out the ones you just counted as you are counting.

sounds like a rube goldberg thing