Gesture Recognition Idea for Profantasy
As I said in another post, I am getting a slate PC soon and have been looking into the new gesture recognition technologies and realized that there are some very exciting possibilities for CC.
One idea is to draw rough shapes with a pen or finger and the software draws a perfect version of what you had in mind. So you can draw mountain shapes and the software recognizes your squiggle and drops in a mountain of the correct scale. You could also use it for drawing dungeons pretty quickly. I found a program called RiteShape that does something like this and I think they offer an SDK for software developers.
You can try an online version that demonstrates the technology here:
http://www.ritescript.com/Products/Demos/rShDemo/rShDemo.html
What do the Profantasy people think of this? Are you looking at this kind of technology?
One idea is to draw rough shapes with a pen or finger and the software draws a perfect version of what you had in mind. So you can draw mountain shapes and the software recognizes your squiggle and drops in a mountain of the correct scale. You could also use it for drawing dungeons pretty quickly. I found a program called RiteShape that does something like this and I think they offer an SDK for software developers.
You can try an online version that demonstrates the technology here:
http://www.ritescript.com/Products/Demos/rShDemo/rShDemo.html
What do the Profantasy people think of this? Are you looking at this kind of technology?
Comments
Personally I think all software companies will start using this technology soon, because it is unnatural for people to have to memorize key presses and steps in menus just to draw simple shapes. What is natural, is to be able to reach in and manipulate visible objects with your hands and for the computer to draw what you intended. With the multi-touch screens coming in as standard, I think gesture recognition is the future of software, and mouse driven menu interfaces will seem as quaint and out of date as DOS is today.