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About

The project is created to foster open source community who collaborates on connecting the physical with the virtual for architecture and design applications, and beyond. It aims to integrates various sensors, physical devices, and tangible interfaces into 3D modeling environment and various physical design outputs and prototypes. It is currently a publisher-subscriber framework which allows various virtual applications to subscribe to the server in order to access, monitor, and modify the data of the connected devices.

Email: << u b i m a s h A T g m a i l D O T c o m >> (without the spaces) Please email us when you download UbiMash

For more information visit ubimash.com or read this article or join our discussion group.

Versions

Latest working versions of ubimash, source codes, and manual need to be checked out from bitbucket.org.

Usage

Some examples how ubimash can be used:

Please email us to get support and also cite the following papers if you use UbiMash:

Salim, F. D., Mulder, H. M., Jaworski, P., Ransom, J. W., Cutellic, P., Iseki, T., Di Leo, S., Köm, Y. (2010), Collaborative Design and Live Interaction with Parametric Models using UbiMash, International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC), vol 8, issue 3, pg. 377-398 (pdf)
Salim, F. D., Mulder, H., Jaworski, P. (2010), 'Demonstration of an Open Platform for Tangible and Social Interactions with Responsive Models', Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) 2010 Conference - Life in:formation, New York, US, 21-24 October 2010 (pdf)
Salim, F. D., Mulder, H., Burry, J., 'A System for Form Fostering: Parametric Modelling of Responsive Forms in Mixed Reality', accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia 2010, Hong Kong, China (pdf)

Code Development

Any help in improving or expanding the codes is much appreciated. In June 2011, the source control is migrated from Subversion to Mercurial. The decision to move the source control platform is due to the power and efficiency of Mercurial, one of the two most popular Distributed Version Control System (DVCS). To learn more about Mercurial, read [hginit.com this superb tutorial].

Acknowledgments:

Brian Peek for the Managed Library for Wiimote
Steven Downing, Arup and DesignLink SDK open source community for supplying the code to extract GC graph variables
Collaborators from SmartGeometry 2009-2011 and Parametrics and Physical Interactions cluster
Collaborators from Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL), RMIT University

Developer Notes

Codes are provided "as is". We do not share the perfect code with all the required documentation (comments) and try/catch error block. Codes may still be optimised, and you're welcome to do so as well as resubmit the improved codes to the repository.