I’ve had the problem that I wanted to show a list of Flash videos in a Flex application and I want to show a sample picture of each video. As I have got only the videos stored in a folder and have no jpegs of them, I want to generate those sample jpegs, one for each video in the folder. Thus, I found quite a lot of blog entries that show you how you can create an image from a Flash video with the Open Source tool ffmpeg.
As I want to do this not for a single file but for a whole folder, I have written a bash script, that renders out a frame of each FLV video into a jpeg and saves them into a folder called thumbnails of the folder in which it is lying. Read the rest of this entry »
Recently, I needed an image reflection effect in Flex. This would not be complicated to achieve for a Loader image object in Flash Actionscript 3 but the more for Flex as everything needs to be a bit more complicated in Flex when it comes to customizing.
This article from Kevin Hoyt’s blog has been a hell of a lot useful for me. It describes how thumbnails can be generated on the fly of high-res images with Adobe Air and how they can be saved to HD.
With PyMT there is a new kid in town for visual multi-touch interaction frameworks, which is based on the scripting language Python and connects to TUIO producers like the Touchlib, reacTIVision or Touchsmart TUIO.
Currently, the most multi-touch applications seem to be implemented in Flash AS3. Flash is relatively easy to learn, offers great possibilities in interactive 2D animation programming and there seem to be of people that at least can make multi-touch things work in Flash by plugging modules together. Python has not so far been common for interaction or animation but for rapid, high-performance and professional “underneath the hood” server development. Read the rest of this entry »
Thus, existing TUIO (multi-touch) applications like those from the nuigroup (which you can e.g. find here) can be used on HP Touchsmarts. Additionally, it allows the development of multi-touch applications on a small and reliable device. However, HP Touchsmart and the NextWindow frames have some drawbacks, which Georg presents us in his video about Touchsmart TUIO (with his charming Vienna accent):
Finally, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona guys around Martin Kaltenbrunner released a special page for TUIO that explains the protocol in more detail and with some examples. In the past it had not been that easy to extract all necessary information from their TUIO paper.
Just in time, before they will hopefully release TUIO 2, which supports OSC via TCP and thus a support for Flash without the need for Flosc or Toxy as Flash does not support native connections via UDP sockets.
This video presents the results of the Bachelor thesis of Frederic Friess at the Vislab of the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences. I have been Frederic’s mentor under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Doerner for this work. Read the rest of this entry »
I helped Sensory Minds to build an interactive multi-touch and tangible media installation for a Werkschau of students from the Hochschule Pforzheim. Graduates are represented by objects that are provided with a fiducial on the underside and a picture of the work on the upper side. As soon as the object is added to the table, pictures of the student’s projects will be loaded and circularly arranged around the object. Those pictures can be browsed via multi-touch. If a user taps on a project picture all pictures to this project will be loaded and will be arranged on a second circle around the project images. Read the rest of this entry »
This video demonstrates the fundamental multi-touch functions of Vispol. The demonstrated functions contain the creation and modification of persons and objects and connections. Additionally, examples for the application of the layout functions in Vispol are being introduced.
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