新车间 [Xinchejian]

First Part, will show more in depth information how to build a fullsize multi-touch table and cover topics like: lens calibration, infrared tracking, lenses and optical filters, different camera models advantages/disadvantages, different lightning techniques like DI, DSI FTIR, using multi-camera setups and stitching to build much larger touch areas, using tuio send tracking data out to vvvv/flash/processing etc., fiducial marker tracking. Alex from Rexgo kindly lend us his FTIR Setup so we have a bigger Table (80cm*100cm) to try things out.

Second part, will be a very quick basic introduction into the vvvv toolkit and how to use the GUI, for poeple who doesn't allready now it.

In the third part, we try to patch some basic multi-touch/multi-user interactions in vvvv: buttons, sliders, pinch/scale gestures, drag items around, using fiducial markers for tangible computing. I will provide some ready made patches, for the more complictaed stuff, as the topic can get fairly complex. I will also talk a bit about user interface design problems which I faced in past project, and how we "solved" them.

Date: Sunday Nov. 11th 2012

Time: 10AM to 12PM, after lunch, 1PM to 5PM

Fee: RMB 250 (Please pay by cash at the workshop)

Location: XinCheJian, 2F 1035 Changle Rd. (corner Wulumuqi Rd.)

Requirements for this workshop:

- Laptop with Windows installed

- 3-button mouse

Nice to bring:

- If you've participated the Multi-touch screen workshop, bring the small multi-touch screen with you.

- If you have, bring your PS Eye Cam or any other webcam.

- If you have, bring a windows laptop. this workshop is more hardware based but i will show some apps interaction techniques within vvvv which is windows only.

- If you have, bring along your mini/pico projector.

About the instructor

Partick Jost (elektromeier) born 1975 in switzerland. Like many boys at his age he became addicted to computers early, playing around on the commodore amiga, and developed an interest for computer graphics.

He did a basic art&design education 1997-1999 in the cities of St.Gallen and Basel Switzerland. He worked as an industrial printer from 2000-2004.

In 2003 he come to vvvv for vjing purposes. At that time he allready knew graphical patching applications for music generations like pd and reaktor, and he was very exited that something like this existed for computer graphics.

Since 2008 he decided to work fully as a freelancer and make his living just with vvvv patching. He worked for the following companies & brands:

“wir machen bunt GmbH” Hamburg Germany, “interactive scape GmbH” Berlin Germany, “q-bus Mediatektur GmbH” Berlin Germany, “Mindstorms Ltd” London UK, “Peyote” Vienna Austria, “Habegger AG” Zürich Switzerland, “dot dot dot srl” Milano Italy. Brands: BMW,Audi,Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, Vertu, Farnell, Holland Casinos, Sheraton Hotel Bratislava, Swiss Tourism Board, Eaton Europe, Alstom Europe, X-Factor UK, Ciroc Vodka UK, Domus Magazine Italy, Austrian Pavillion Shangai Expo, Atlantis Ressort Bahamas, Glennmorangie Whiskey China.

What is vvvv?

vvvv is a graphical programming environment for easy prototyping and development. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously. Responsible for its development is the vvvv group. More on http://vvvv.org/