A few years ago the EU project TAI-CHI (Tangible Acoustic Interfaces for Computer-Human Interaction) explored using acoustic cues from tapping and scratching on surfaces to control devices. It was interesting to see that they managed to create fairly advanced “touch screens” using only 1-3 contact microphones attached to the surface. Here is a nice...
Read more →Today the Norwegian government decided on the following standards to be used in all public communication: Video: Theora/Vorbis/Ogg or H.264/AAC/MP4 Sound: Vorbis/Ogg, MP3 or FLAC/Ogg Image: JPEG or PNG Documents: PDF or ODF Character encoding: ISO10646 – UTF8 It is great to see that they encourage to use (mainly) open formats and standards. Now...
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While debugging some Max/Jitter patches, I just noticed that the built-in iSight camera in my aluminum MacBook only returned 15 fps. I have always imagined that it was running at 30 fps, but turning on the “unique” attribute in jit.qt.grab showed that 15 fps is what you actually get. Looking around the web I...
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