I was happy to be invited as a workshop leader for "Design Week" at The University of Akron. I would call it more of a demo workshop. I went from modification of a PS3Eye webcam, to installing CCV to loading a flash application to make an interactive wall. All in about 3 hours. So I thought this would be a great topic to write up for anyone that may have missed something in the demo or couldn't make it into the demo entirely. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, I've been really liking the AS3Tiuo Framework. I've been using it to build the app for the digital graffiti wall, and I've used it for a little experiment with the Hype Framework... I do love me a good framework mashup!
That Particle generator app used a different type of listening events than I expected though. And I really needed to get back to using TouchEvent to interactive with specific objects on the stage. The particle generator just listens to all the Flash as a whole and reacts, it was never set specifically to anything, that is the way just using this.tuio.addListener(this); works it seems. Really nice for things like that, just listening to anything.
But I now need specifics in my programming. So I need TouchEvent.TOUCH_DOWN and whatnot now! As I'm sure you all would like that too. Well here is a simple way of getting started...
Hey there. It sure has been a while hasn't it?
Looks like I have a little down time while my computer defrags and my upgrade goes through at work, so I thought I'd hop on and white up a quick post of something I just wrapped up and released.
A while back I'd had this crazy thought of trying to start building an online community for people to share MT Flash applications. I was becoming kind of frustrated that there was no real one location I could start uploading apps to, to share with everyone that wasn't just my own website. A place where a whole group, or everyone, upload apps to use, to build off of, to experiment with.
So I shot out a message to the NUIGroup really quick saying I was thinking about doing something like this. Moments later, Message. NUIGroup user Seth Sandler told me there was actually a group of them already thinking about something like that... and not just Flash, but for everything! Flash, python, processing, frameworks, applications, projects... Everything related to the new types of user interfaces and the software to run them.
First thought, I need to be a part of this! I was totally there, everyone who had already got together were pretty much Everyone I had respected from the NUIGroup. All the users I had hoped to one day work with! Amazing.
So I gladly helped out any way I can, but the real leader pulling it all together, Seth, my hats off to you man. I'm really excited to see how the site grows and evolves. So anyone visiting my site, and reading this, become a member! Get inspired, get Sparked!
I plan on getting as many apps as I can up there for all to use. I have some there now:
I better get into gear too, I don't want to start dropping to far down the top users list
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So I am trying to build out this proof of concept application, its a demo of a conference's floor plan with a list of all the attendee on the side, you'll scroll through the list, pick one and the app will show you the location on the map and give more information about the attendee. Only one problem, I'm using the TUIO, so there isn't a component for a scollable list of ...anything. So looks like I just have to build one.
I took a couple tries before I stopped coding myself into a corner. The layering of the component had to be just right. Plus, it needed to the usable at any angle. It is intended for a table top / multi-user display. And to make that happen, I needed quite a bit of layering, on the app and in the code itself.
I also wanted this to start off all code based, so I only used FlashDevelop. So moving forward, if you have Flash you can build a MovieClip and attach it to the List Item Object and customize the look of the selectable items.
My Google Code page has been updated! After what has seemingly been forever.
I've created a widget that I'd like to share with everyone. A small for keyboard for use in Flash TUIO multitouch (experiments) projects. The form I based off of my Google Android Phone and iPhone style. Read the rest of this entry »
Now feels like a good time to get back into it. Especially coming across this site:
Sure, it doesn't seem like there has been many recent posts. It can be hard juggling a life around experimenting. It doesn't make it any less awesome when you see something and get inspired. Here is what I found, a AS3 script that would not just draw a line, but so nice ribbon curving and add a glow around everything automatically. It is just begging to be multitouchable (that sounds a little dirty now that I think about it).
http://asluv.com/2007/09/18/laser-draw-as3-experiment/
"This experiment uses the AS3 drawing methods to generate an organic mask formed by several pairs of points linked with curveTo.
The generated shape masks a simple radial gradient and the result has a GlowFilter and a DropShadowFilter applied to it."
It works great, no doubt about it. But the source is there, we can take it a little further. Now I got a lot further than expected working on it, and the night is starting to get late, so I'm going to try and condense the main ideas I want to remember that are the most useful.
First off, I'd like to say thank you to everyone who came out to support art, music and technology in Cleveland. I feel very proud to have been part of such an event. Not only was the public curious and interested in everything that was going on, even the fellow artists, musicians and technologists were eager to enjoy the whole festival.
But now, down to it.
The main question everyone had when I got back to work on Monday was, “how did it go?”
It went Awesomely.
Sure, there were a few kinks to work out at first. Two of the videos were still being converted to h.246 compressed videos so they could be played by flash in HD. And the voting on the table had a few bugs because of the missing videos. But Alex and Andy got them wrapped up ASAP and in they went.
Smoooooth sailing from then on, right? Well, not exactly.
The multi-touch table was wrapped in a cloth for appearance sake, and I didn't realize how much heat it would trap in. Within 2 hours, the mirror I was using to reflect the projector slowly started to melt off of the frame that was holding it! Oh boy, quickly I got a block of wood to secure the bottom section and grabbed the duct tape (duct tape is my personal hero in times like this). Mirror is back on track and luckily I never nudged the camera so the calibration was only off by what looked like 1/4 inch—not horrible. And aside from that, only the Flash on the multi-touch table got a little overwhelmed a few times over the course of the weekend.
Saturday morning. Got the iPhone voting functioning—that was yet another highlight of day. People were capable of voting for videos outside of the exhibit if they felt so inclined. And it was cool to see the playlist randomly change order at any given time the table.
On Sunday the entire setup ran error-free for 5 hours and 59 minutes! Not bad for a first time art/tech exhibitor, in my opinion.
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The news is going out, one week from now, Ingenuity Fest.
Heres a list of more information:
I've got some upgrading going on. First, I procured a new projector. I was worried the old one was running out of bulb life, and I borrowed it. Similar throw distance, well a little less. And I decided to switch from FTIR to DI for an upcoming event. So now I can just get a now projection screen and solid surface and be set until the next build.
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