Hmmm. I have different perspective on this, Sure, go ahead and see what's possible in east coast cultivation (I think the UK during a drier period also produced saffron commercially....but they probably didn't pay the pickers well, employed children, etc). I'll continue to treasure and savor it, indulging when I can justify it for particular dishes. But I'll also continue to buy it from the countries where people have a hard enough time making a living, are continuing a millennia-old tradition, and the saffron cultivation provides a viable alternative to opium production. I see this as the upside to global sourcing, my purchases going to support the sort of world I want to live in. Here's a thorough article on saffron as a medicinal, a dye, and an antidepressant drug. Maybe more than some need to know, but great fodder for plant geeks like me :) http://itmonline.org/articles/saffron/… Erik van Lennep SKYPE green.heart youth and elders short video <http://vimeo.com/62177578/> http://www.linkedin.com/in/erikvanlennep/ <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> “I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.” —BARRY LOPEZ” On 14 January 2017 at 09:33, Garak <garak@code-garak.de> wrote: > > Sounds like a working solution to me - you could start with something like > this weeding robot http://sine.ni.com/cs/app/doc/p/id/cs-13096/ , it has > the camera and the labview-based tools already included... though actually > i'd expect your President to be may just choose the low-tech method and > raise the import taxes on saffron. > > > Am 13.01.2017 um 23:26 schrieb Tim Eck: > >> It's like regular image analysis except instead of using brightness for >> the >> basic contrast method, you can use the hue, saturation, and intensity >> breakdown of the color image. In this system hue is the basic color, >> while >> saturation is the amount the color is diluted, and intensity is whether it >> is diluted by white- gray- black. Using this method, your robot would >> grab >> anything blue - violet in hue, avoiding green, and the sorter would grab >> anything orange-red. >> >> Tim >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >>> From: pbs [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of From HK >>> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 4:31 PM >>> To: Pacific Bulb Society >>> Subject: Re: [pbs] Could Saffron Help Vermont Farmers? >>> >>> Hue base image processing? Wow. >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >> > > > -- > Martin > ---------------------------------------------- > Southern Germany > Likely zone 7a > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/