Sonic Wire Sculptor and Rhonda, a 3D drawing tool

Amit Pitaru and James Paterson, creators of Numby, an app for kids to teach counting skills, have been involved in a number of interesting projects.  Here are two of them:

Sonic Wire Sculpture


The app creates music in 3D, so it is best to use headphones.


Sonic Wire Sculpture is available as an iPhone app.  More information can be found on the Sonic Wire Sculptor website.


Rhonda Forever is a 3D drawing tool that was born around 2003 and has a team of developers who are working to create stable releases of the application so it can be accessed through different platforms.  There is a newer beta version of Rhonda for PC and Mac that can be downloaded from the Rhonda website. The team is working on releases that will support 2-hand interaction.


I'm hoping that Rhonda Forever will be available for the iPad.




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Everybody Loves Sketch (an user-friendly 3D drawing application that is designed for non-artists, tested with high school students.)
ILoveSketch website

More Multi-touch: So touch Multi-touch Presentation Software for Windows 7

So touch is a creative software company that has developed So touch Presention for creating multi-touch presentations for Windows 7.  You can download a trial version from the So touch website.  Minimal requirements are a 1.6GHz processor (Core2 Duo), 2 Gb of RAM, and a 512Mb graphic card.)

Here's the promotional video:


Here is the promotional information from the So touch YouTube site:

"Create your own multi-touch presentations! Discover the NEW So touch Presentation software!


Get your audience captivated and make your presentations more intuitive and entertaining than ever!


Manipulate images or screenshots of your usual documents with multi-touch gestures! Navigate multi-
images format, scroll up and down long images. Then open the original file or document in one tap on the screen leveraging the usual Windows associated application!


Thank to its user-friendly visual administration interface, the So touch presentation software is easy to use and will bring to life your presentations on a day to day basis!"


For more information, get in touch at contact [at] so-touch [dot] com or visit http://www.so-touch.com


Music by http://www.myspace.com/wouhouh





FOR THE TECH-CURIOUS
"So touch Presentation for Windows 7 is developed using Adobe AIR and our unique AS3 framework for Adobe AIR and Windows 7 that is also available on our website! It is the first professional and transparent solution to develop Windows 7 compatible Adobe AIR applications. We are proud to be the first to announce it! There is some open source existing solutions but they don't offer the transparency and efficiency of SoBridge, the TUIO to Windows 7 C# bridge, included with So touch Framework."


Contact Person: Julien Lescure
Company Name: So touch
Telephone Number: +44 20 3239 3912
Email Address: contact[at]so-touch[dot]com
Web site address: http://www.so-touch.com

Do you have an HP TouchSmart, Dell Studio One, or NextWindow touch-screen? NUITech's Snowflake Suite upgrade provides a multi-touch plug-in.

If you have a NextWindow touch screen display, HP TouchSmart PC, or Dell Studio One PC, you might be interested to know that NUITech has upgraded their multi-touch software, Snowflake Suite. There is an evaluation download available on the NUITech website created for the NextWindow platform. (The TouchSmart and Studio One have NextWindow touchscreens.)

Here is a short clip of Snowflake 1.6 in action:

Snowflake Suite 1.6 provides users with an opportunity to change the standard content that is delivered with the software, which includes images, videos, 3D models, and backgrounds, so it can be customized according to need.

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Natural User Interface AB has adopted new branding and a new name, Natural User Interface Technologies AB, or NUITech.

Press Release (8/12/09)

Evaluation version of Snowflake Suite for NextWindow systems (including TouchSmart, Studio One)

Snowflake Suite running on multiple NextWindow 2150 overlays for 22-inch screens:

(The previous version of Snowflake, depicted in the above video, was a finalist for the 2009 Stevie Award, "Best New Product or Service of the Year- Media & Entertainment)



Singapore's Public Utility Board display, Singapore International Water Week, featuring NUITech systems and software.

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Press Release: Next Window Earns Coveted Windows 7 Logo Certification pdf

Pervasive Checkers on Microsoft's Surface: The Gamepack Video

In early 2007, before we knew of the existence of Microsoft's multi-touch surface, I worked on a "Pervasive Checkers" project with Johnny Hopkins, a classmate in my Ubiquitous Computing class. I'd previously worked with XNA Game Studio Express in an AI for Games class, and thought that it would be cool to make a casual checkers game on a multi-touch table that could be played in gathering spots such as coffee houses and neighborhood cafes.

Below is a screen shot of what we created using Inspiration software - (in the application, you can click on an item and it expands to reveal additional information.)

Two years later, and the Pervasive Checkers idea is reality - but I wasn't involved in the process. Checkers is one of the games that is included in a game-pack created specifically for the Surface.

Take a look at the video:



From Surface Computer News:

"The Microsoft Surface Games Pack is a clear illustration of where the Natural User Interface of Windows 7 has the potential to take games. Windows is traditionally the number 1 gaming platform around the world. With the introduction of the NUI, allowing players to literally have titles at their fingertips via touch, Windows 7 can kick the gaming experience up a notch. Provided that developers rise up to the challenge."