Recently, I made my first steps in Adobe Air 2. As Air 2 is still in Beta version (currently in Beta 2, which was released on February 2, 2010) there still could be some problems when working with it.
Author Archives: Johannes Luderschmidt
Touchlib Config.xml Blobconfig Parameters, What They Do and What They Do not Do
Recently, I have been working on the Touchlib in order to refine some things, which always bothered me and to add some things of which I think that they would come in handy e.g. a full-grown Pointgrey Flycapture2 filter that allows me to edit the Pointgrey Firefly MV camera’s settings in a way that I …
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A Few Impressions From Vispol on the Round Table at the Fair “Moderner Staat”
As already mentioned in this post, we presented Vispol at the booth of the state of Hessen/Germany at the fair “Moderner Staat” in Berlin on 24. and 25. November 2009. Vispol has been shown on the round multi-touch and TUI table from Sensory Minds. Here are a few photos from the fair. Please apologize the …
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Vispol at the “Moderner Staat” Fair in Berlin from 24. – 25. November 2009
My software Vispol will be shown at the booth of the state of Hessen/Germany at the fair “Moderner Staat” in Berlin on 24. and 25. November 2009. It will be shown on the new really cool round [!] multi-touch and TUI table from sensory minds. I will be there on both days.
Flex Does Not Find Resource Bundles
Recently I had the problem that my Flex code, which used the ResourceManager, would not find the resource bundle, which contained all resources for my application. However, the application compiled but it would always crash whenever the first time a resource should be loaded. I checked my compiler arguments a 1000 times but everything was …
Microsoft Surface TUIO Overlay SurfaceToTuio
In terms of the NUI research project Squidy at the Konstanz University the TUIO overlay SurfaceToTuio has been developed for Microsoft Surface. Download the SurfaceToTuio component from the sourceforge project site (or via direct download). SurfaceToTuio is available as source code only (there is no executable). However, you can just upload the SurfaceToTuio folder to …
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Infrared Light Blocking Foil Test for FTIR Multi-Touch Tables
Figure 1: The Virttable’s display with (right) and without (left) the chosen IR blocking foil. Some time back, I’ve bought some infrared blocking foil for the Virttable from the German foil store Ifoha. Infrared blocking foil is an approach for the blocking of ambient infrared light (e.g. from a light bulb or daylight) ONLY in …
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VotkA: 3D Visualization of the k-means Algorithm using Fiducials, Processing, TUIO and OSCRemote
I am going to present a few projects on my blog in which I collaborated in one or the other way. This post introduces Fabio Campos‘s VotkA (Visualization of the k-means Algorithm) project of the course Visualization in the Master’s studies of Computer Sciences at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences. Fabio’s project is a …
BumpTop 3D Multi-Touch Desktop
BumpTop is a Windows Explorer-like application that offers intuitive gestural multi-touch interaction paradigms with piles of files and folders. Additionally, it has a 3D space in which you can navigate and decorate your workspace. You can copy files to and from your usb stick, to Facebook or you can send them via mail. It seems …
Microsoft Surface Vision System
Very interesting: Surface tracks shapes with its vision system. There are five cameras in the Surface. The system has a very high resolution (dice can be tracked). Surface uses high-power leds with a mirror system. via blogs.msdn.com