Great! I have an idea -- can you make us a YouTube video illustrating what
you are doing?
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Benn Snyder <benn.sny...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Evening Bob,
>
> I went a slightly different route. In org.openscience.jmol.app, I created
> a tiny class ImageFeedback extends JPanel. Its JFrame isn't visible until
> setImage(BufferedImage) is called. JmolPanel creates an ImageFeedback when
> the entry in Tools is selected and passes it on to the viewer via the new
> JmolViewer.setImageFeedback(ImageFeedback). JmolOpenNIAdapter now has
> access to viewer.imageFeedback and can call setImage() in the OpenNI update
> loop.
>
> This is ready to go - I delivered a beta version to our chemistry
> department with everything except ImageFeedback. My work is based on Jmol
> svn commit 7ae3f6dee82a027a8437a4edc760c6c53aac937a (September 8). My
> changes to existing code are pretty minimal, so I don't expect any issues
> when I update and rebase. I've read the Jmol Developers' Guide; what else
> do I need to know about committing?
>
> One issue: in JmolOpenNIAdapter.setMultiTouchClient(), I call
> viewer.setSelectionHalos(true), but this doesn't appear to work.
>
> The code has much more documentation than the last time you saw it, but
> it's lacking in end-user documentation. A formal user manual is on my todo
> list. I'm also planning to write an announcement and call for testers to
> post to Jmol-users; this will contain an updated version of the below
> instructions.
>
>
> 1) To see the live image captured from the sensor, go to Tools->OpenNI
> Image Feedback.
> 2) Stand in front of the sensor and perform a Click - move open hand
> straight toward the sensor and back. This hand is the primary hand. Use
> it to select the current action by making gestures.
> 3) Move your other hand into the scene until it's recognized - NITE can be
> finicky about this and sometimes gets into a create-destroy cycle with the
> second hand. It takes some practice to find optimal distances from the
> sensor and between your hands*.
> 4) Perform a Push (same as Click) with the primary hand to enter selection
> mode. A cursor will appear in the Jmol viewer. Move the secondary hand
> to the desired target and perform a Push with the primary hand to select -
> default is to select all atoms within 20 Jmol units of the selection cursor.
> 5) Swipe the primary hand up to do a selectAll.
> 6) Swipe the primary hand down to do a selectNone.
> 7) Wave the primary hand (a Wave is at least l-r-l or r-l-r) to enter
> translation mode. Move the secondary hand to translate all selected atoms.
> 8) Move the primary hand in a Circle to enter rotation mode. Move the
> secondary hand to rotate all selected atoms.
> 9) Repeat 4, 5, 6, and 7 as desired.
>
> Note: You must install OpenNI and NITE first. I highly recommend using
> the unstable versions. I successfully followed this guide for OS
> X<http://developkinect.com/resource/mac-os-x/install-openni-nite-and-sensorkinect-mac-os-x>.
> The process is similarly documented for Windows and Linux elsewhere on the
> web. For Gentoo Linux users, I've got some ebuilds that I'll try to get
> into an appropriate overlay soon.
> Note: You *must* find the file Hands_1_5_2/Nite.ini (location differs by
> platform) after installing NITE and remove the leading semicolons from
> AllowMultipleHands=1 and TrackAdditionalHands=1. This software will not
> work without that change.
> *Note: HandTracker spits out a lot of useful information when its field
> info==true (default: true). Open up Help->Jmol Java Console to see it.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Benn
>
>
>
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