Who Doesn’t Like Lava Lamps?
If you’re familiar with multitouch, you’re probably familiar with Jeff Han’s TED demo. In it, there’s an example of a lava application that shows an interesting use of multitouch.
A few months ago, I was trying to work on something similar.
The following is what I came up with. I never had the chance to finish and was only able to add mouse support at the time. So, here’s a preview of what might come to a multitouch screen near you at some point in the future.
It’s pretty slow since it uses bitmapdata and filters and the code is a bit of a Frankenstein of information I found online about ‘metaballs’. If I get a chance, i’ll see if I can get the code out.
Meanwhile, have some fun! Click around and push/move the lava!
What do you think? Lava enough for you?
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Seth,
The Lava works pretty well on my TouchSmart PC!
Lynn
Cool app ,
May be this can be faster ,if this can be in cpp or python .
Try to add a color index for the ‘heat’ – where you have it rising because it’s hot – then it will look more like Jeff’s — cool though
Hey I caught your blog and you mentioned lava lamps, which kind of lit a lightbulb in my head. Man, I love lavalamps and I bet others besides me among your readers would benefit from something I’ve been working on for awhile. The is URL attached to my comment for my site, LavaLavaLamps. I’ve had a site up for awhile and we offer lava lampsf or sale. So, if anyone wants to buy a new lavalamp that’s lost or misses their old one from the 70s, please do. Enjoy!
Hi Walter,
Thanks for the comment! That’s exactly the goal (to add heat) at some point. Hopefully i’ll get some extra time soon.
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