reacTIVision
Artist name:
Martin Kaltenbrunner (Music Technology Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Ross Bencina (Sonic Fritter Pty. Ltd.)
URL:
http://reactivision.sourceforge.net/
Description:
reacTIVision is an open source, cross-platform computer vision framework for the fast and robust tracking of fiducial markers attached onto physical objects, as well as for multi-touch finger tracking. It was mainly designed as a toolkit for the rapid development of table-based tangible user interfaces (TUI) and multi-touch interactive surfaces.
reacTIVision is a standalone application, which communicates via the Open Sound Control based TUIO protocol, which was specially designed for transmitting the state of tangible objects and multi-touch control on a table surface. The framework includes a set of free example client projects for various programming environments, such as Processing, Pure Data, SuperCollider, Java, C# and C++, which serve as the basis for the easy development of tangible user interface applications.
This framework has been developed at the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain as part of the the reacTable project, a novel electronic music instrument with a tangible user interface. Since its publication as open-source software, reacTIVision has been adopted by many researchers and artists for the creation of their own interactive table installations and instruments.
Workshop requirements:
- bring your own laptop
- if possible a webcam to be able to try out the reacTIVision software