Riki.Kawakami's blog

The project is over, or at least almost over. We still need to wrap it up by doing some documentation but that's not too hard.

The pitch on Wednesday went pretty well, we feel. Livingstone, as we call our camera application, does what was asked and even more. Boy, do we wish we could tell you about them here!

The project is over. We have designed a great music player with 3D graphics and 3D audio rendering, and call it the Music Space. As with most projects here, we also had to hurry up a bit at the end to make everything to work out. We think it worked out fine.

We are trimming, we are finishing, we are polishing! 90% of our camera application's functional code has been written. Photo gallery view, tagging and their filtering, and many more functionalities are working by now. - Then there's the "but...".

Luoto, as we called our concept music player a while back, is receiving a graphical design treatment. Once its finished it replaces the temporary design done by our head UI programmer.

Our player finally works! At least it plays couple of different audio formats while the visualisation (UI) is being implemented as we speak. A working version ought to be ready this upcoming week - then we can have some fun with it.

As suggested by Antti S. on the previous OpenInnoWednesday, we're organising a Demola InnoSummer film afternoon. It takes place on Tuesday 3 August at around 16.30. 

After tallying the votes, Zombieland has emerged as the film we're going to watch! Second was Dante's Inferno and third Star Trek and Bitch Slap. Luckily Twilight got "only" three votes. ;-)

Music Space came up with an initial UI plan for the programmers to implement. We've refined the ideas we've had and hopefully they turn out to be just swell. We just wish we could share them here!

The biggest issue of week 29 was UI related. We found out that implementing transparent UI elements in Qt either cause the system to lag or are in fact impossible to be used in certain situations. Hence we gave up the use of the transparent UI elements. That's not a problem though because our kick-ass designers will come up with a great substitute for them.

As said on our previous Music Space blog entry, we managed to sort out the concept for the project. This week the UI designer has made some initial designs and interactions for the concept. Upon the first coarse implementations of it, we noticed that what looks good on a piece of drawing paper doesn't necessarily look that good on a small touch screen.

Working during hot summer days is pretty hard, especially when the air-conditioning isn't working as it should. However, Sensor Assisted Image Tagging project is not affected by this!