Archive for December 2008

Making a multitouch table: The frame

Written on Dec. 30, 2008 at 6:12 p.m.

In my previous multitouch-table related post I have promised a few photos of our frame as well as some details.

We have decided to go with the natural look and made the frame from beech wood. Well ... technically my neighbor who used to be a woodworker made it. That is ...

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Christmas Greeting 2008

Written on Dec. 24, 2008 at 3:25 p.m.

To continue with the tradition of Christmas greeting cards here on my Mindscape here is one for the year 2009.

I must say that this year time got the better of me ... in the last weeks I have been busy writing a paper ... more about this on some other occasion ...

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Making a multitouch table: The plan

Written on Dec. 23, 2008 at 1:08 a.m.

After studying some designs for multitouch displays made by other people we have began thinking of how can we incorporate all this into our design and also give it a personal touch. At the beginning I have planned to make a window-like screen, but then we have decided for the ...

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Matlab snippet: calculate Euclidean transformation

Written on Dec. 9, 2008 at 2:21 p.m.

Nothing special really but since I have to do a lot of things in Matlab these days, why not post some snippets in case anyone will need something like this and decides to search the Net for it.

This function should calculate Euclidean transformation in 2D ... you know ... the translation ...

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Making a multitouch table: The links

Written on Dec. 6, 2008 at 11:07 a.m.

Time for another theoretical post about multitouch display. This time it is about other people and their know-how.

Like I have mentioned in the previous post, there are ... well, a lot of people that tried to build a multitouch display and also felt an urge to publish almost every step ...

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