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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jul 30 2013 - 04:13:53 CDT

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Olaf Lenz <olenz_at_icp.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
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> Hello everybody!
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> We have just received a Leap Motion Controller:
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> https://www.leapmotion.com/
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> One of our goals is to use it to control VMD.
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> Has anybody already started to work on that?
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> Our very first try to get it done would be via the Tcl or
> Python-interface. The controller provides a Python module that can
> easily access the controller's output.
> On longer term, I think that it is probably better to interface to the
> C++-code. Can the maintainers give us a hint on where to start?

i would start by digging around to see whether somebody has interfaced
it with VRPN. then you get VMD support practically for free.

axel.

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> Olaf
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> Dr. rer. nat. Olaf Lenz
> Institut für Computerphysik, Allmandring 3, D-70569 Stuttgart
> Phone: +49-711-685-63607
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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.