Oops - sorry - I previously posted this to the wrong place in the thread

Thanks Frank. That’s very useful. 
Since touchlib now uses the TUIO protocol, I would be very surprised if Tuio
for Squeak did not work with touchlib right away (possibly after adjusting a
port number), and I would expect the basic demo app to run too. However, I
haven’t tested it yet, as the install for Touchlib on OS X seems a bit
daunting – it was Windows-only originally. I will investigate but  would be
interested to hear from anyone with touchlib already running on any platform
(it wouldn’t be that hard to do a quick collaborative test over the net). 

I’m assuming that  touchlib uses the  2D Tuio protocol, rather than the 2.5D
or 3D, though it would be no big deal to extend Tuio for Squeak to deal with
those – I’ll investigate just in case touchlib uses any little used parts of
OSC and Tuio. 

Interoperability with touchlib would indeed be valuable as  this would make
it easy to write Tangible user interaction applications in Squeak based on
blob recognition and tracking, and with  FITR technologies as well as with
fiducials. 

Cheers 
Simon 

Frank Shearar-2 wrote:
> 
> "Simon Holland" <s.holland at open.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All
>>
>> I have just uploaded the first version of Tuio for Squeak.
>>
>> Tuio allows Squeak to use the reacTIVision computer vision system to
>> track
>> physical objects in real time. The package includes a Tuio client and
>> demonstration application program. To make practical use of Tuio for
> Squeak
>> you will need a webcam or other camera, and should download the free
>> Reactivision application for your operating system.  To learn more, see
>> http://mcs.open.ac.uk/sh2/squeakmusic.html).
>>
>> Tuio for Squeak makes it easy to build tangible user interfaces using
>> fiducial markers on physical objects.
>>
>> Tuio for Squeak allows the rapid development of table-based tangible user
>> interfaces (TUI) and multi-touch interactive surfaces.
> 
> Fantastic stuff!
> 
> There's also the NUI group [1] and David Wallin [2] working on multitouch
> UIs. David Wallin, in particular, works on touchlib [3], a TUIO-based
> multitouch library. touchlib will (AFAIK) be adding fiducial support as
> well
> [4].
> 
> Simon, with your TUIO client - does this mean that one could use other
> libraries (say, touchlib) to send data to Tuio for Squeak?
> 
> Since touchlib's licence is the New BSD Licence, this might address Howard
> Stearns' licence concerns.
> 
> frank
> 
> [1] http://www.nuigroup.com/
> [2] http://www.whitenoiseaudio.com/blog/
> [3] http://www.whitenoiseaudio.com/touchlib/
> [4]
> http://www.whitenoiseaudio.com/blog/2007/06/fiducial-detection-first-hack.html
> 
> 
> 
> 

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