SandCanvas: A Multi-touch Art Medium Inspired by Sand Animation

• Main Authors: KAZI, Rubaiat Habib, CHUA, Kien-Chuan, ZHAO, Shengdong, DAVIS, Richard Christopher, Low, Kok-Lim
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Sand animation; multitouch; tabletop computing; creativity; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1485; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2484/viewcontent/p1283_kazi.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Sand animation is a performance art technique in which an artist tells stories by creating animated images with sand. Inspired by this medium, we have developed a new multitouch digital artistic medium named SandCanvas that simplifies the creation of sand animations. SandCanvas also goes beyond trad...