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Object counting

When the i-Catcher Clump Engine (ICE) is enabled, objects can be counted as they cross parts of the image. A number of options are also available for exporting counter statistics on a schedule.

Tripwires & Counters

You can add a "virtual tripwire" to an ICE feed. When a clump crosses this wire, a counter can be incremented or decremented. It is also possible to set Console to beep when this happens.

Tripwires are configured on the Counting tab of the Feed Settings. New trip wires can be added, and existing ones reconfigured or deleted.

Each trip wire can have a different colour and a horizontal or vertical orientation on the image. The size and position are set using percentages. To explain how this works, imagine an image 100 pixels across, with a tripwire with a position of 25%, and endpoints of 25% and 80%.

This tripwire will appear a quarter of the way down the screen, and will start one quarter of the way from the left (25 pixels in) and continue to 4/5ths of the way across (80 pixels in, or 20 pixels from the right).

Each trip wire when crossed increments or decrements a counter as selected. This can be set to be triggered on one direction or both, and the two check boxes will show the directions that can be monitored.