CatCam.com has a real time web camera monitoring cats
Title
CatCam
Description
It runs from my home in San Jose, California. The camera itself is located underneath a card table in the corner of my living room. It sits at floor level, so that viewers get an image more from the point of view of the cats themselves.
The recent images are all selected from "interesting" images taken by the CatCam. Interesting here means "significantly different," and the way that's done is two images (the current image and the last image taken) are compared by computing the sum of the squares of the differences in red, green, and blue values of all the pixels in the image. What this means is that for each pair of images that are taken, CatCam gives the image a "score," which is strongly favored for significant color changes in a lot of pixels rather than minor lighting level changes in each pixel (which happens naturally over the course of a day). Whenever this score exceeds a certain arbitrary value (I chose 10
On Sunday, 1999 June 13, I brought home Athena (pronounced ah-THEE-nah). She was born about six weeks before, and was being cared for by a private home in San Jose. She was semistray; by that I mean her mother was a stray (being taken care of by this family), but the kittens were all raised in the basement, and were used to humans around but didn't have constant contact with them.
