I got a projector and webcam set up over the tabletop. Experimenting with hand-tracking.

Tracking pinches

Tracking and projecting pointer fingers

Collecting some recordings of recent experiments. Taking photos of my books, using Gemini image edit generation to isolate those books and then removing their backgrounds, embedding generated summaries of those books and exploring them across various layouts.

Spines and covers

I was looking at a short school bus with three windows with three decals applied beneath. I think it was "Quality", "Bus", "Corp" or something like that. And I was looking to see how they had aligned the decals under the windows. Left-aligned on each one? Left, center, middle? read on scrawl

Tabletop + nano banana experiment where you draw over the top of the generated image and feed it back. Searching for a sweetspot of physical <-> digital interaction. (video sped up and edited)

A weird mc escher-ish one:

Working on a book site

Correction: should be Wookash

Re-setup my workspace with a monitor in the tabletop and an overhead camera. Aiming to do more physical computing experiments.

The final arrangement

Stripped down the old setup

Promising result from ranking my handwritten notes using embeddings and then prompting for connections to the top result. Need to prompt it into less clumsy language though.

From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew-g3UINUx0

Thinking about ways to combine this with some of my tabletop experiments. From Yancy Strickler.

Needs some cleanup, but having fun.

First tabetop using the new webcam setup.

I got the basics of vector embedding retrieval working for my tabletop notes. Thinking about a more intensely minimal interface that really is image only.