🎨 Virtual Painter

Control a virtual paint canvas using your hands and a webcam. This project uses OpenCV and Mediapipe for real-time hand tracking.

Features

• Draw with your index finger.
• Select brush/eraser from a header bar using gestures (index + middle up).
• Immediate visual feedback and simple UI.

🔧 Dependencies and Usage

Install the dependencies:

conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate virtual-painter

mediapipe is installed via pip inside the conda env (declared in environment.yml).

or

pip install -r requirements.txt

🚀 Run

python virtual_painter.py

🎮 Controls

• Index + middle up: select tool from header (green = brush, black = eraser).
• Only index up: draw.
• Press q: quit.

📝 Notes / Troubleshooting

You might see EGL / OpenGL warnings on some systems (e.g., falling back to ES 2). They’re harmless.
To reduce logs:

export GLOG_minloglevel=2
export TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL=2