November last year we presented the Interactive Networks concept at Supercomputing 2008. Recently I got hold of more photo and video content. Photos and videos In my previous post on Interactive Networks, I gave a brief explanation of the concept. [...]
MoreA few months ago Google and T-mobile introduced the T-mobile G1 (aka googlephone). What makes this smartphone so special, is the fact that the operating system (Android) is open source. While most end-users wouldn’t care about this, developers have more [...]
MoreAfter my graduation in July, I was asked to join the Scientific Visualization and Virtual Reality group at the University of Amsterdam. The project that I would be working on was network visualization on a multitouch table that was going [...]
MoreTommorow the 3rd edition of IEEE Tabletop will take place in Amsterdam. On the first day of the conference there will be a bootcamp on building your own multitouch surfaces. At the bootcamp the ‘experts’ will share their knowledge and [...]
MoreFor those who are interested, I have uploaded my master’s thesis and final presentation. 1. Master’s thesis: Mirror: SCS – Master of Science theses (1.4 mb) 2. Final presentation: (26.6 mb, includes embedded wmv videos) 3. Multitouch video: (76.3 mb, [...]
MoreAfter almost a year, I finally finished my thesis and presented it. A brief overview of my work can be found in the video below. The thesis itself will become available later this week and will of course be posted [...]
MoreThe same game I have showed here but this time played on the multi-touch table. p.s. Sorry for the ending it wasn’t [...]
MoreLast year I demonstrated how Windows XP could be (ab)used with multi-touch interaction. A few weeks ago I made some adjustments to make it compatible with the latest touchlib and this is the result: tDesk v2 allows the user to [...]
MoreTouchlib A few weeks ago I was busy tweaking the Touchlib sourcecode and noticed a bug/feature in the code which caused the image processing pipeline to stall for 32 milliseconds. This might not sound like a big issue however on [...]
MoreSmoke improved… One of the demo applications which comes with Touchlib is Smoke. The technique which is used to create ‘smoke’ is based on the algorithm presented by Jos Stam in his paper Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games. Often multi-touch [...]
MoreMinor fixes: - Fullscreen should be working now - It is should be possible to use any screen resolution now (previous version used 1024 x 768, hardcoded) - Keyboard can be locked on the stage (prevents the keyboard from jumping [...]
MoreMy 2 minutes of fame… Last saturday MMA Pro was presented on national television (NED3, VPRO) in the show called “In de ban van ‘t ding”. The documentary created by Dahl TV and Bright Magazine is about the (new) technologies [...]
MoreThe last 2 days I’ve been working on a new application (or actually a plugin) which controls Nasa World Wind. This is the result * update: 23 november 2007 * Using the plugin on my multitouch table (diffused illumination) at [...]
MoreLast weekend I worked on a new flash application which is called the ‘Multitouch Puzzle Game’. This game is a tile based puzzle game which let users solve the puzzle by mouse or solve the puzzle with multitouch (collaborative puzzle [...]
MoreI’ve posted two Howto’s on compiling touchlib in Windows (XP and Vista) and Linux (Ubuntu). Howto: Compile Touchlib in Windows Howto: Compile Touchlib in Linux Both compile instructions apply to subversion rev.73 of touchlib. If you followed the Howto’s and [...]
MoreI'm Laurence Muller (M.Sc.) 
, a former Fellow of the Scientists' Discovery Room Lab (SDR Lab) at Harvard University / School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).
Currently I am working on innovative scientific software for multi-touch devices and display wall systems.
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