multitouch systems . india | adithya . divesh

Hey people ...its been a while since i updated anything... well its christmas time so we took the liberty to be lazy for a while... putting up the panel / leaflet (jpges) we used to showcase our work at the NID convocation . dec 2007 leaflet panel cheers :)

hey folks.. finally went bak to the workshop and managed to complete the table (the side panels, logo n stuff was left).... so here's how it looks now :) the logo in front is still done in photoshop...have sent one for printing and will be putting it up today evenin... :) will update the pic with the real thing when its done :) cheers

Well, everything !! We realized that although we had named our project, we hadn't bothered giving it an identity yet. A friend from NID designed a logo for our multit-touch table. So here it is ... Visit her blog to see some of her other cool designs :) Thank you Pallavi. Ps : MT OS stands for Multi-touch operating system.

hey people.... its been some time since we posted anything... our project got featured in the Indian Express Daily on the 8th of Nov 2007.... so posting a scan of the paper article... time to get famous !!!! :)

Hello ! This is a compilation video of most of the applications we've come up with , which by the way we presented in our semester juries. Our final concept was, to put in a lot of applications and present a concept for a future Multitouch based OS. I'll try and explain all the apps very briefly here ... 1. The first one is our own custom presentation software This application allows a presenter to arrange his/her slides on the multitouch table, and obviously ... scale them and rotate them. And then, there is the show button , which on touching presents the slide on a projector connected to the table. ( or for that matter any display device connected to the table ). This is how it works The inset in the video shows the slide being presented through a projector. This means that, one can present his/her slides in a completely non-linear manner which is a requirement so often. And what better than referring to your slides by just touching them . Whats more, this software is runni...

The Director of National Institute of Design, Dr.Darlie O Koshy, visited us today - to have a look at our project. He was impressed (to say the least :-) ) and took keen interest in going through the details of the table. Dr Koshy, plays "myTangrams", our first game for multitouch He spoke words of appreciation on the variety of applications that we have developed and the future possibilities of this project . Good day so far :) Cheers Adithya | Divesh

Hey.. Its been a while since we updated the blog, mainly cause our semester juries are approaching (less than a week to go) and we are really tied up with the last minute preperations!!! Have been able to build some more cool apps (atleast we think they're cool) :) ... they include a batch photo editing and uploading tool (with all the multitouch coolness factor) that can load pics from your digital camera (DCIM format) and throw them around on the stage as soon as u plug it into the USB port!, then you edit them (basic editing like brightness, contrast, saturation) one or multiple images at a time and simply upload them to a http web address!!! The second app is just a collection of different web services, reworked and with a new refreshing look and again all the multitouch coolness factor :)...a flickr photo application, youtube video app, and a google maps/yahoo road maps application that lets you do what google earth can, on a multitouch setup. a screenshot of the web service...

Hello After the keyboard, we were trying to figure out what would be an interesting domain to work on under multitouch. Almost simultaneously, we came up with games and entertainment. Our guide, Mr. Kuntal De', suggested that we work on simple games that we used to play as kids - something like Tangrams aka Chinese puzzles. So here it is, our first multitouch based game - Tangrams (literally "seven boards of skill"). There are 20 puzzles to be solved - with 7 pieces - each called a tan. The final shape should contain all pieces, without overlapping. Chek out the video ... So whats so multitouch about it ? You can use your fingers to drag the pieces, rotate them and fit them neatly into your puzzle. Also the parallelogram needs to be flipped at times so there is a defined gesture for that too.... the image below shows that and you can notice it in the video as well... (i flip it thrice i guess :D) If you really find it hard to solve them ... just touch the Solve button. Go...

Hi ! Here is a video of our latest app... a multitouch keyboard. Now, access your keyboard with just an icon on your multitouch desktop. Touch it ... and a keyboard pops out. Dont like the size ? Scale it ... Dont like the orientation ? Rotate it ... Otherwise, it just works like any normal keyboard. You still have to "touch" the shift key and hold onto it to type things like $ and :) Cheers! Divesh | Adithya

Hi ! Here is some news .... RalphDas, a from student Digital Media Design at the Utrecht School of the Arts, the Netherlands, has just added our video of myCanvas to his blog, and expressed his viewpoints ... Check it out here Cheers Adithya | Divesh

Hello Everyone ... Here is a video of our paint application - “myCanvas” (as we call it) … Now you can paint using an actual paintbrush, dip it in water, select the colour you want ... and just colour up your canvas, like you always did as a kid. When the water goes dry ... dip it in water again and carry on. Its as convetional as it gets. We have been painting on it for almost an hour now, and its good fun. Does leave you with a wet surface though… but that’s no problem. There is more coming soon ... Cheers Divesh | Adithya

now i can claim that our table is ready to perform at its best. got rid of the choppy output by replacing the USB webcam with a IEEE 1394 sony handycam. now i am getting a feed at almost 30-35 fps.... so the apps run smooth like they should. New video post coming up soon.... can't keep my hands off my baby.... too excited to get on building some of our own apps. cheers!!!!

This is a video of our multi touch setup in action (almost though). Its a bit choppy now but shud get better in some time. This application uses flickr API to download pics from my account and display them on the surface. Hand gestures are used to pan/zoom/rotate and move them around... pretty cool eh? Cheers!

finally after a week of cutting and chopping and grinding and soldering... we have finally managed to get the setup look like a finished product... and to add to it all.. it works!!!! posting some pics of how it looks now... its almost done... some varnish and it shud look great :) cheers!!!

Hi ! We present, a touch-senstive desktop (what we are hoping to be India's very first). This is a user interface that allows people to interact with digital content the same way they have interacted with everyday items their entire life: with their hands and with gestures. [ a snap of our touch sensitive table top interface ] We are students of National Institute of Design(NID), India . This blog is meant to serve as documentation for a classroom project, we are currently doing.Seems very reminiscent of the recently released Microsoft Surface, but yes, we are trying to build new software based applications using this as our basic framework. Moreover, this is completely built in-house, in the workshops of NID.The aim of this project would be to create new and intuitive ways of interacting with digital content/media. The underlying technology is usually referred to as Multitouch , and is based on FTIR (Frustrated Total Internal Reflectio...