Saying goodbye Lots happened the past year, the most notable projects I have worked on as a scientific programmer were “Interactive Networks” (a collaboration with the SNE department) and “Twilight” (a graph visualization and exploration tool for multi-touch devices). I [...]
MoreNUI Book To help out fellow multi-touch users and developers, the NUI Group community decided to create a book sharing information about multi-touch technologies. Originally we intended to release this book during the IDC2009, unfortunately we were only able to [...]
MoreWatch it in HD on Youtube or Vimeo! Changelog for v3: Fixed compatibility issue with Adobe AIR 1.5 (Fullscreen bug) This version should autodetect your screensize to support any screen resolution. Added a Google Maps object Added support for adding [...]
MoreIt has been a while since my last blog post, so I will try to catch up a bit. Earlier this year, Chris Moore invited me to join the Interactive Displays Conference 2009 (IDC) in San Jose, CA, USA. The [...]
MoreNovember last year we presented the Interactive Networks concept at Supercomputing 2008. Recently I got hold of more photo and video content. Photos and videos In my previous post on Interactive Networks, I gave a brief explanation of the concept. [...]
MoreA few months ago Google and T-mobile introduced the T-mobile G1 (aka googlephone). What makes this smartphone so special, is the fact that the operating system (Android) is open source. While most end-users wouldn’t care about this, developers have more [...]
MoreAfter my graduation in July, I was asked to join the Scientific Visualization and Virtual Reality group at the University of Amsterdam. The project that I would be working on was network visualization on a multitouch table that was going [...]
MoreTommorow the 3rd edition of IEEE Tabletop will take place in Amsterdam. On the first day of the conference there will be a bootcamp on building your own multitouch surfaces. At the bootcamp the ‘experts’ will share their knowledge and [...]
MoreFor those who are interested, I have uploaded my master’s thesis and final presentation. 1. Master’s thesis: [download#14] Mirror: SCS – Master of Science theses (1.4 mb) 2. Final presentation: [download#15] (26.6 mb, includes embedded wmv videos) 3. Multitouch video: [...]
MoreAfter almost a year, I finally finished my thesis and presented it. A brief overview of my work can be found in the video below. The thesis itself will become available later this week and will of course be posted [...]
MoreThe same game I have showed here but this time played on the multi-touch table. p.s. Sorry for the ending 😛 it wasn’t [...]
MoreLast year I demonstrated how Windows XP could be (ab)used with multi-touch interaction. A few weeks ago I made some adjustments to make it compatible with the latest touchlib and this is the result: tDesk v2 allows the user to [...]
MoreTouchlib A few weeks ago I was busy tweaking the Touchlib sourcecode and noticed a bug/feature in the code which caused the image processing pipeline to stall for 32 milliseconds. This might not sound like a big issue however on [...]
MoreSmoke improved… One of the demo applications which comes with Touchlib is Smoke. The technique which is used to create ‘smoke’ is based on the algorithm presented by Jos Stam in his paper Real-Time Fluid Dynamics for Games. Often multi-touch [...]
MoreMinor fixes: – Fullscreen should be working now – It is should be possible to use any screen resolution now (previous version used 1024 x 768, hardcoded) – Keyboard can be locked on the stage (prevents the keyboard from jumping [...]
MoreMy 2 minutes of fame… Last saturday MMA Pro was presented on national television (NED3, VPRO) in the show called “In de ban van ‘t ding”. The documentary created by Dahl TV and Bright Magazine is about the (new) technologies [...]
MoreI'm Laurence Muller (M.Sc.) 
, a former Fellow of the Scientists' Discovery Room Lab (SDR Lab) at Harvard University / School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), where I worked on innovative scientific software for multi-touch devices and display wall systems.
I'm also the founder of Epic Windmill, a software company that develops apps and games for mobile devices.
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