Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] GSoC 2012 Project Idea: NUI module for tuxpaint

[Sreeraj a <wri...@gm...>]

Hello,
I had sent a project idea to tux paint devel about a week ago, with no
response from the mentors.
I have modified my proposal heavily and submitted it on melange.
Kindly review my application and if you find it interesting, and in the
right direction for tux4kids in general, please let me know your
suggestions.

The work to be done is relatively easy / small. The majority of the work to
be done is during the design phase, deciding the UI aspects of the project.
That would be the place i will need the most amount of guidance.
A potential mentor need not be proficient in Multi-Touch or TUIO or Kinect.

Please let me know what you think of the proposal,
and if not during this summer, is it a good addition to the already awesome
tux paint

Regards
Sreeraj

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Sreeraj a <wri...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello,
> I am Sreeraj, a masters student from India. I've been following tux4kids
> for a long time, and am very much exited about the opportunities to
> contribute to the project.
> I would like to propose a project idea for this years google summer of
> code. I'd very much appreciate any suggestions to refine the idea into a
> decent proposal.
> This one is inspired from the tux4kids mobile idea from the SoC wishlist.
> Having an app like tuxpaint on a mobile device, like a tablet would let
> children interact with the
> application more intuitively using their finger(s), and can learn and have
> a great deal of fun at the same time. The key element here is utilizing the
> multi-touch capabilities of the device for a more natural and intuitive
> interface.
>
> When we think in this direction, we can extend tuxpaint to more natural
> devices like the nintendo wiimote, or the Microsoft XBox kinect, or multi
> touch table-like surfaces.
> I would like to implement a natural user interface module for tuxpaint,
>  using which children can use their body-gestures to draw shapes, move them
> around , and play with them.
>
> The XBox kinect seems to be a perfect fit for the project, as it lets the
> children use their whole body to interact with the software. Lots of
> awesome hacks have been done using the Kinect, and the community supporting
> the drivers and libraries is growing.
>
> The idea is not just to write a single extension for kinect, but to
> develop a framework where we can easily plug in new and more exiting
> extensions like the kinect to tuxpaint.
> A good place to start would be to implement the TUIO Protocol (
> www.tuio.org) which is hardware independent and would give tuxpaint
> multi-touch capabilities, independent of the hardware it is using.
> TUIO is used by many multi-touch aware programs/libraries, for example
> pyMT.
>
>
> The proposal is intentionally made very vague, because i would like to
> know what you guys think about the idea, and how we can graft it into a
> summer of code project.
> I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
>
> This is not my first foray into tux4kids development. i had the privilege
> of working with a few summer of code participants for the tux type project
> in 2007. in developing for indic language support.
>
> I have good C development skills , and have worked with pyMT, TUIO. As
> part of my masters thesis, i am developing a programmer friendly gesture
> based language.
> I also have an XboX kinect with me, so i can start working on the project
> right away :)
> Do let me know the improvements we make make on this proposal, and how
> relevant it might be for tuxpaint.
>
> Thanks
> Sreeraj
> M.E Computer Science
> BITS Pilani
>
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