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 …
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Vispol Multi-Touch Video
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. Click here for further information about Vispol. You can try out the mouse version of Vispol here.
My Master’s Thesis Project: Vispol – An Interactive Scenario Visualization
As part of my Master’s thesis with the title Conception, Realization and Evaluation of Multi-Touch Interfaces for Interactive Visualizations, there has been the goal to create an interactive visualization that can be used via multi-touch. Finally, this visualization should be evaluated, which means it should be thoroughly tested and there should be some results in …
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Setting the Width and Height of an Object in Flex to 100% with Actionscript
Today I had the problem that i needed to create a Flex element by hand and apply to it a width of 100%. This goes as easy with MXML as this <mx:VBox id="wrapperBox"><mx:UIComponent width="100%" height="100%" id="elementXYZ"></mx:VBox> But you cannot code this to achieve the adding programatically with Actionscript: var elementXYZ:UIComponent = new UIComponent(); elementXYZ.width = …
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Calculate and Set Bounds (Bounding Box) from Points in Google Maps Flash [Update]
I’ve got a list of points in my database, which I want to show neatly in a Google Maps Flash Map. Thus, I … calculate the bounding box around these points calculate the center of this bounding box set the zoom level of the map in a way that the zoomed cutout contains all points …
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Figure out if you are using AS3 code in an Adobe Air application
I use my code in both an Adobe Flex and in an Adobe Air application. As I want to use the native menus of Adobe Air I want to prevent that my self-built menu is being added to the Air application. Thus, I need to figure out if the code is running in a Flex …
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Google Maps Multi-touch Actionscript Code [Update_3]
After I published my youtube video on the Google Maps multi-touch app I have had some demands for the source code of this Google Maps multi-touch Flash application. Hence, I have decided to make the source code of it publicly available on Google Code. You will find the sources on the mapstouch Google Code download …
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