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It seems that everyone is working on multi-touch. Good for them, and good for me. The sooner this technology is in my hands, the happier I will be. (Refresher- I want a multi-touch drafting table!) I’m posting this video because it presents a likely interface for vector drawing interaction that is necessary for programs used by architects like AutoCad, and Adobe CS. The link takes you to Surfacerama.com, where I first learned about TANGENT-A Multi-Touch Surface. The technology being developed by Christian Iten, Daniel Luthi, and Emanuel Zgraggen includes a ” digital tweezer”. The analogy of the tweezers is used because our big clumsy thumbs and fingers aren’t ideal to control the pixel-width nodes we’ve become accustomed to manipulating with ever more precise levels of zoom. You can read their own explanation at their site. I suppose the drawback of table sized display is that it makes the use of zooming obsolete. That’s a drawback because even though zooming is a workaround of the small display of full-sized objects and models, users have gotten used to it, and large scale multi-touch will change the language we are used to speaking. Even though it’s better to work on something like an architectural drawing at a real-world scale, forgetting everything you are used to can take some time to, well, get used to. I’ll take it though, because I think the benefits of working on graphic information at the size of the final product is inherently better on the product, the schedule, the budget, the presentation, and the client. Yeah, it’s trickle-down.This link takes you some video of the system (youtube). |
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