multitouch possible?
"Bernd (Jesus McCloud) Prünster"
bernd.pruenster at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 14:50:58 CET 2009
Charles Pax schrieb:
> On 1/27/09, *Fernando Martins* <fernando at cmartins.nl
> <mailto:fernando at cmartins.nl>> wrote:
>
> kris Occhipinti wrote:
> > I agree that it is a hardware limitation.
> > But, you never know what some one will come up.
> > One day someone may come up with an idea the rest of us never
> thought
> > about.
> Yes, just for the folklore, this reminds me of the old ZX Spectrum
> console which had only 16 colours until someone figured out that
> if they
> switched two colours on a pixel fast enough the eye would perceive the
> combined colour. A new era of beautiful games started there :-)
>
>
> Hmm. Interesting point. We'll need to know how much control we have
> over the touch screen controller, but let's throw around some
> theories. What would happen if the voltage given to the touch screen
> controller were varried at some frequency or through a rnage of
> frequencies? Maybe we would find that we could measure some resonance
> frequency and coorelate that (along with some other measurable data)
> to more than one contact point.
>
> -Charles Pax
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
i found something, although, they (of course) dont tell how the did it:
http://www.tycoelectronics.com/aboutus/news/prodnews.asp?id=1584
and i am quite sure they use different hardware
http://www.tycoelectronics.com/aboutus/news/prodnews.asp?id=1584
...btw i read that gta03 will introduce capacitive touchscreen (its in
the wiki).
why the hell would anyone want this?
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