Collage made from Maggie Appleton's "Planning with Agents" talk/essay:

Behind the scenes of making the collage on the tabletop:

Original essay from maggieappleton.com/planning-age...

Trying out tabletop as album playing canvas:

Still unsure if the dream is that ultimately all of this goes on the same canvas. It is nice to find myself returning to the same sorts of functionality again and again (blocks, drag into to activate, write to navigate).

had a cursed thought about setting up the touch frame i use with an axidraw. so then a programmed path would go in through a stylus and then be reread as touch events. interesting thing would be to have the axidraw repeat and then augment/glitch with additional organic touch events.

The Computer for the 21st Century collage inspired by an @andymatuschak.org reference.

(putting my digital collage setup through its paces)

Behind the scenes of making an article collage:

Collaging from a platform into the tabletop:

I want to combine this with screenshot sources, thinking of a physical + digital scrapbook page.

Using the digital tabletop with a smart TV to make ad hoc ambient dashboards:

Platform tracking on the tabletop:

Calibration still a work in progress - between mapping the camera to screen and the large touch targets of the pegs I'm using to hold the platforms up it turns out to be tricky. Could always capture more and make recrop easy but would love to dial it in.

Touch-based dynamic camera cropping on the tabletop:

Drones on the digital tabletop:

Working on a tabletop collage app, and enjoying this "write to navigate" experience.

Watching performances of dance/techno with live instruments. A lot of it is repetitive grooves a machine could do - but the fun is knowing the musicians can shift or do small elaborations at any time.

(watching Caribou: Live Concert | CBC Music Live

Construction and water:

Thinking about collage:

How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand:

Feeling the lack:

Thinking about the role of decoration on the tabletop:

A lot of building intuition about a project area is seeing what you can get away with leaving out or not doing. As a way of testing what's essential.

Tabletop interactions:

Constraints:

Put together a page collecting all the tabletop demos so far: tabletop.grantcuster.com

These are running off the original bluesky posts - made it super easy to collecct them.