Touchlib updates

I have updated the touchlib bins to fix a few things. Pressing 'b' now should clear out any existing blobs which helps for those times when touchlib gets overloaded and blobs get stuck on screen (in the future hopefully I'll be able to prevent this from happenning to begin with..). It is also using the openCV find contours function to locate blobs now though I haven't done a side by side comparision to see if it's any faster..

I also loaded the flash source into the google code repository in the flashSrc directory. This will be the preferred way to get the flash source from now on.

Bins for the Flash apps are now available here. I made some big updates to the photo app - pictures now slide around with some velocity after you let go and I fixed a bug with the two finger dragging behavior (when you let go with one finger it would snap to the wrong location before).

In other news, my employer (Archer Group) is having me build a table for them, so I'll be able to use a decent camera this time (we have ordered the FireFly MV from pt-grey research) and produce something that is a finished table, rather than a prototype. We are going for a table form factor.

The search for the perfect 'compliant surface' continues (someday we'll have to come up with a better name for it). Rockit (on the nui group forums) has reported some success with silicone rubber and mylar drafting sheets. I have a big piece of transparent silicone on order - I will let you know how well it works when I receive it. I'll be trying some of the rosco screen on the silicon rubber.

Roy Block [ ]

I came across this interesting video on YouTube. It's using Reactivision to detect the position of some bricks that the user holds to help guide an onscreen character to a goal. It's kind of like video gaming in reverse. It'd be interesting to see something with different types of tangibles (they could be different power-ups or objects such as trampolines, etc). Interesting concept.

Multitouch Photo App in action

Here's a clip of me using the Photo app I wrote I in Flash (AS3). Currently it connects to Flickr and downloads some random recent pictures and allows you to browse them which is pretty fun in itself. I am planning on releasing this app as part of touchlib soon along with a couple other example Flash apps and a basic Flash "operating system" which will basically just be an app launcher.