DiamondSpin
Tabletop Toolkit Project

Screenshots:

PDH stands for Personal Digital Historian and was a stand alone application running family pictures on the table. 2001

DiamondSpin v1.0 was developped at MERL by Fred Vernier to generalize what we did with PDH. 2002-2003

DiamondSpin Lite was developped at MERL by Mark Hancock. 2004

DiamondSpin v1.5 was developped in France for MERL by Frédéric Vernier and focussed on Swing/Java beans integration. 2005

DiamondSpin v2.0 is developped as an open-source project by Frédéric Vernier and others. It now use openGL as graphic engine and TUIO as input events

Videos (to come...)

• Read the legal instructions and accept them before going further
• Try one or all of the following free examples using DiamondSpin
• Try to click the icon below or download the project and
  • launch run.bat OR
  • double-click the file dstourX.jar OR
  • type the command "ant run" in console OR
  • type the command "java -jar dstourX.jar" in console
• Download the Toolkit after identifying yourself: Here
• Read the DiamondSpin API generated by javadoc

• DSFrame can be rotated, zoomed, resized and moved ! ... and even peeled (folded)
• DSFrame have special decorations and a customizable title bar (on top, at bottom or both !)
• Virtual keyboard may appear attached to a frame or alone on top of a view
• Real keyboard events are forwarded to the last touched text area
• Document alignement/orientation can easily be customized to face anything to may think to. We use an independant engine (with many examples provided)
• DSViews handle a global rotation, zoom and translation of the content and a global translation of the background too. Many dsview can be created and switched later on.
• Everything can be annotated with colored ink (windows, back of the window, the background of the views, etc.)

• pulldown menus (jcombobox are working )
• OpenGL rendering using JoGL and accelerated GLJPanel provided by JSR231
• More default content (Movie, svg, rich HTML, rtf, pdf, text editor, etc.)
• Look&Feel integration
• Piling (how to make pile of document and manage the pile on the table)
• Voice recognition integration
• Gesture recognition engine
• Better virtual Keyboard (with localization, animated show on, sounds, etc.)

• MERL initial DiamondSpin page
• Tabletop'2006 Conference page held at University of South Australia in January 2006
• CAIF workshop page held at EPFL in june 2005
• Digitable Digitable french project on tabletop systems using computer vision and DiamondTouch
• Touch Gestures project page
• UbiTable project page
• DiamondTouch project page
• Edward Tse PhD web page
• Ftir Touch project page at New-York University
• Entertaible project page from Philips
• Living Memory project page from Philips
• PointScreen project page at Fraunhofer
• Interactable project page at Fraunhofer
• Lemur project page from JazzMutant
• Touchtable product page
• Future Office Table project page from Ars Electronica
• Lumisight project page from NTT/University of Tokyo
• Habitat project page from MLE
• Sensetable project page at MIT
• Tableportation master thesis page by Giorgio Olivero & Peggy Thoeny
• Misto table article page from CNET about HP product
• Augmented Surfaces project page (Dr Jun Rekimoto at Sony CSL labs)
• Magic Board / Table magique project page from IIHM-CLIPS in Grenoble
• Digital Desk slide page about Pierre Wellner's work
• Digistrip project page at CENA
• Scoop project page
• Drift Table project page
• Little Table project page
• Andrew Wilson article from MS
• CoSpace project page at University of Indiana
• Tangible StorySims project page at MIT MediaLab
• Metisse project page at Inria In-Situ

• → TouchEvent (finger's position) trajectory
• Interfaces in italic, Classes in bold
• Inheritance when a class inherit methods and fields from an other class
• Listener receiving events related from a source they registered first
• Free hand drawing on the table using finger as a brush
• Graphical element visible on the table
• Explaining concretely what could be a DSElement in our architecture

• → layer superposition in front of the eyes
• DiamondTouch table in this picture but could be any concurent event generator
• View are repository of graphical elements handling popup menu, selection of element, etc.
• Engine transforming cartesian coordinates to polar coordinates and reciprocually
• Popup menu appearing when double tap is performed on the table
• Corner of a DSFrame, Used to resize, zoom in/out, rotate or peel the frame

Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its documentation for educational, research and non-profit purposes, without fee, and without a written agreement is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and the following three paragraphs appear in all copies.

To request Permission to incorporate this software into commercial products contact one of the authors of the project

	Fred Vernier: frederic.vernierlimsi.fr Assistant professor at Univ. Paris Sud, LIMSI Labs, Paris [web page]		Chia Shen: shenmerl.com Director of the SDR Labs, Harvard University. Boston(MA) [web page]
	Guillaume Besacier: guillaume.besacierlimsi.fr Post-Doc at LIMSI Labs, Paris		Daniel Wigdor: dwigdordgp.toronto.edu Researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond(WA) [web page]
	Cliff Forlines: forlinesmerl.com Researcher at MERL Research Lab, Cambridge(MA) [web page]

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