I cropped the test animation from the above video. I didn't want to process the images because I didn't know how you'd use them.

The whole animation on the vid was about 1000 frames (at 24 fps).
Included is a zip file with the last 145 frames as pngs of the test animation in the youtube vid. It seemed to me that some of the more interesting shapes were at the end. It might look funny, but I think it's a start.
Is that enough to go on for now?

Here's the tech's website:
http://ecologylab.net/research/zerotouch/index.html
And their email:
zerotouch at ecologylab.net

cheers

p.s. apparently this is the way that CRT's were first mach touch screens back in the day (so said a comment on the New Scientist article's website)

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Sorry, my bad, here's the whole quicktime. I don't know why I sent just frames, it must have been too late in the night for my brain to work right.

I'd love to see if you can do anything with this

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Actually, the frames zip was spot on, I always do this thing with sequenced png An unprocessed is also good, as I do that on the fly.

Anyway, the resolution and definition is a bit low and for best results it requires a single "blob" so no completely white frames or detached pieces.

But here is a piece of it:
(100 frames or so)



Data derived from above mentioned and cropped Zerotouch video.

View 3d model here :http://www.shapeways.com/model/271180/

The process works best with slow moving video where all motion is somehow connected. But the possibilities/results of touch are way cooler than I had imagined

Cheers

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[Updated on: Mon, 06 June 2011 12:04 UTC]

Arrgghhh! You beat me to it.

I work at a visual effects studio and had a partial set up when I left this evening, but I was going to tackle it tomorrow. But let's see what I get anyway.
Let's see if I can get the whole 1000 frame animation going. I bet with some frame blending it'll look sweet. The left side of the frame was cut off, so I think I'll try and mirror it to see what I get.

Yah, I think it'd be a very different result if the movements were purposeful, but I do think it has a fluid and organic kind of grace.

Oh, yeah, good job, sir, it looks Awesome! Good job

p.s. I think It'd look very interesting as the negative space in the inside of a block of lucite.

[Updated on: Mon, 06 June 2011 12:33 UTC]

Thanks, sorry, I didn't know you were gonna try:

Quote:

I'm sure it would be easy to program, just out of my expertise. Just putting it up here for the more adventurous experimenters who have more time than I do.

Anyway, like I said, I already had most of the setup for this.
Then it was just a matter of tweaking the video and filters.

Curious to see what you will get out of it!

[Updated on: Mon, 06 June 2011 15:12 UTC]

Whew, finally able to wrangle some time together.
Here's a still of the big enough solid shapes in the whole 1060 frame sequences.
Some of them are very interesting!

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And here's someone that does this kind thing large scale! I don't think he'd going from a touch screen interface, but the result is similar.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/08/sculpti ng-shapes-that-dont-exist.html
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/exploring-the-dimensions -with-sculpture/2

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