Re: [Pd] OT: this is the kind of interface I want

2006-11-13 Thread Damian Stewart
Claude Heiland-Allen wrote: Something like this? http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ yes! that was the one i was thinking of :-) -- Damian Stewart +64 27 305 4107 f r e y live music with machines http://www.frey.co.nz http://www.myspace.com/freyed

Re: [Pd] OT: this is the kind of interface I want

2006-11-12 Thread Arie van Schutterhoef
The problem with video tracking is that there is no way to to track your finger, -It lacks the physical contacts. instead it just tracks shadows. What happens is if the video tracking looses track of your finger for one instant, then it thinks you picked up your finger and put it back on the

Re: [Pd] OT: this is the kind of interface I want

2006-11-12 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: If you want to see a real killer demo, check out the 1968 demo of Doug Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center. Yes, I often mention that one. They should a actual, functional system with hyperlinks, a basic GUI, the mouse, video

Re: [Pd] OT: this is the kind of interface I want

2006-11-12 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
I'm envisioning a musical instrument akin to a keyboard that retunes itself. Wendy Carlos made something like this, I think, but I want something more versatile. Monzo lattices, maybe, for selecting notes, and then separate commands for transposing the whole system of notes to different roots.

Re: [Pd] OT: this is the kind of interface I want

2006-11-12 Thread Damian Stewart
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Actually, the most difficult thing to do is make it work well in the real world. Making it work isn't too difficult, there are lots of working variations, including the Pd-powered reacTable. But video tracking is really limited. You have to have completely

Re: [Pd] OT: this is the kind of interface I want

2006-11-12 Thread Claude Heiland-Allen
Damian Stewart wrote: i remember finding a kind of a system that involving pointing at a small list that, as you got closer to it, kind of expanded in scope so that you were able to zoom through a large tree of options by subtle variations in the direction you moved the mouse. something like

Re: [Pd] OT: this is the kind of interface I want

2006-11-08 Thread Thomas Grill
Am 08.11.2006 um 05:46 schrieb Kyle Klipowicz:I KNEW this had to have something to do with Jeff Han.  Brilliant technology.  As I understand it, Apple Computer has gotten involved financially with this.  I'd love to see it implemented!Actually this is fairly easy to implement. There are a number

Re: [Pd] OT: this is the kind of interface I want

2006-11-08 Thread Kyle Klipowicz
I think that the most difficult (and useful) thing to do would be some sort of book keeping to track individual fingers. Maybe some sort of gloves or fingertip sensors? That would make things very flexible.It sounds neat that you're doing an implementation. Please post any satisfying results to

Re: [Pd] OT: this is the kind of interface I want

2006-11-07 Thread Kyle Klipowicz
I KNEW this had to have something to do with Jeff Han. Brilliant technology. As I understand it, Apple Computer has gotten involved financially with this. I'd love to see it implemented!~Kyle On 11/7/06, Chuckk Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was a short discussion of interfaces a while