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Open-source multi-touch: Touché
Dust off that FTIR table you've got down in the basement and fire up your internets to play with Touché, an open-source multi-touch tracking environment for Leopard. You too can have a giant iPhone-like interface in your own den.That's right, no more calling up Perceptive Pixel with (emotional) support questions or fretting over when Surface will invade your Motel 6 with a Blue Screen of Touchy Death. Touché is free, just like a number of other apps from Georg Kaindl. Said FTIR table, however, is slightly less than free. But once you've got a table, a Mac running Leopard and some functional digits, you're ready to rock multi-touch style.
Other apps from Georg that may tickle your fancy include:
- AppUpdate, a Dashboard widget that checks for updates using MacUpdate and VersionTracker and Apple's software directory. We covered it back in 2006.
- WidgetUpdate does the same thing but for widgets (shocking, I know). We covered this back in 2005.
- VoodooPhone, a plugin for VoodooPad for viewing those notes on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Casey Becking said 11:44PM on 8-15-2008
gonna start to make it :)
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Think Adrian said 6:11AM on 8-16-2008
do I need a Mac Pro to make this NOT lag? :(
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Georg Kaindl said 6:49AM on 8-16-2008
No, but a fast (60fps) FireWire camera and using libdc1394 as input source would be a good start. Processing the frames and tracking the blobs is very fast, but the camera's slow framerate as well as QuickTime's buffering introduce the lag. All FTIR trackers suffer from similar lag.