Voilà un truc que j’aime beaucoup. Il y a quelques années j’avais réflechi à un système de ce genre, j’avais laissé tomber l’idée faute de skillz… bashford: If you walk past the windows of Unit 9 in Hoxton Square you might notice a group of people hanging out playing with their phones (what’s new?) - or you might notice the instructions on their windows telling you that if you pull out a touchscreen mobile device or iPad and open a browser the device should detect their wi-fi as the strongest signal and automatically redirect you to a simple drawing tool optimised for multitouch devices. Whatever you draw on the screen, appears on their office windows in real time. Click explode, and watch your knob drawing doodle explode as a firework. According to their press release “Its not an app. It’s a wi-firework experience in HTML5.” According to me it’s an interesting exploration of interaction between mobile devices and urban screens. It might be a little clunky - and ultimately useless in its current form but it’s quite good fun and It’s quite exciting that people are beginning to play with this kind of thing. Technical Stuff The web application was written in HTML5 supporting multi-touch and the drawing is made using HTML5 Canvas and Javascript to listen for touch events. Every 500 milliseconds it checks if there’s any activity on the device. If there is, it sends the activity to the server side socket. On the server side, it’s running a regular socket server that listens for all activity sent from the mobile device. A C++ application is running on the server machine to generate the drawings received from the mobile and the graphics it generates are projected on the window. Wi-Fireworks
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Voilà un truc que j’aime beaucoup. Il y a quelques années j’avais réflechi à un système de ce genre, j’avais laissé tomber l’idée faute de skillz…

bashford:

If you walk past the windows of Unit 9 in Hoxton Square you might notice a group of people hanging out playing with their phones (what’s new?) - or you might notice the instructions on their windows telling you that if you pull out a touchscreen mobile device or iPad and open a browser the device should detect their wi-fi as the strongest signal and automatically redirect you to a simple drawing tool optimised for multitouch devices.

Whatever you draw on the screen, appears on their office windows in real time. Click explode, and watch your knob drawing doodle explode as a firework.

According to their press release “Its not an app. It’s a wi-firework experience in HTML5.”

According to me it’s an interesting exploration of interaction between mobile devices and urban screens. It might be a little clunky - and ultimately useless in its current form but it’s quite good fun and It’s quite exciting that people are beginning to play with this kind of thing.

Technical Stuff

The web application was written in HTML5 supporting multi-touch and the drawing is made using HTML5 Canvas and Javascript to listen for touch events. Every 500 milliseconds it checks if there’s any activity on the device. If there is, it sends the activity to the server side socket.

On the server side, it’s running a regular socket server that listens for all activity sent from the mobile device. A C++ application is running on the server machine to generate the drawings received from the mobile and the graphics it generates are projected on the window.

Wi-Fireworks

Source : bashford

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