New multi-touch framework for WPF 3.5 from Mindstorm

Introducing Breeze

Breeze for WPF 3.5 is a full core framework for multi-touch showing all the internals. Unlike Windows 7, you can see how the rotate, move and scale actions are interpreted, how the centre of rotation is calculated and change it all to improve and extend.

Breeze has a load of cool features, some simple docs, a load of source code and a pretty example photo browser. Breeze for WPF 3.5 is ideal as a core for building multi-touch applications in WPF for Windows XP/Vista and 7, or as a reference implementation to create a new multi-touch application from scratch.

News

Update - 17 March 2010,Collision detection improved, some performance improvements and bug fixes, basic RSS reader control added and example projection handling project.

Update - 18 Feb 2010,Support for clearing canvas and unregistering controls. New dispose logic for better clean-up and improved video player. SVN now has branch with Breeze ported to WPF 4 Beta 2, will be merged to trunk on release of WPF 4.

Update - 16 Dec 2009, New release 1.0.2 now with video support in touch example and a video player control (similar to the photo control). Touch points updated for better positioning and design

Update - 19 Oct 2009, New upload Help File_{Compiled Windows help file (chm format) should open on XP/Vista/Win7. Contains all XML comments into useful reference doc}

Update - 15 Oct 2009, New upload 1.0.1,, (much smaller!) with the binaries excluded. Will build in VS2008 Express or Pro

Features

All core multi-touch logic handled for you!

Scale, Rotate and Move with any number of fingers reliably

TUIO 1.0 Receiver (works with CCV, TouchLib, and more)

No funny finger grouping/clustering logic

Realistic rotation and scale from the correct centre of rotation

Motion smoothing to create smooth movements of elements during move, scale and rotate

Inertia allowing elements slide smoothly to a halt and spin based on velocity of the motion

Professionally built

Great performance! Built to support tons of touches without slowing down!!

Structure for control handlers to perform touch actions on standard WPF controls

Plugs directly into Mindstorm Lightning tracking engine (Mindstorm Lightning comes with all Mindstorm hardware), can be extended to support NextWindow and others

Great example photo browser application (works out of the box)

Fully Open Source (all of it, under LGPL)

All code included (including linear filters, math logic, control handers and more)

No 3rd Party dependencies whatsoever (apart from WPF of course!)

Professionally supported

Project is supported by Mindstorm for the purpose of getting more people developing multi-touch applications.