[instaviz-users] Shape recognizer!

[Glen Low]

Hi All

After a good deal of blood, sweat and tears, I've gotten the basic  
shape recognition engine out. Try it here:

	http://guess.pixelglow.com/recog/

The recognizer feeds off statistics generated by all the shapes and  
lines you've drawn over the last few weeks, so it's as much your  
blood, sweat and tears as it is mine. I need to tweak the sensitivity  
of various shapes so I'll need your feedback -- e.g. if you drew a  
diamond and it got recognized as a square instead.

Also, inspired by Daniel's suggestions, I've included a multi-stroke  
switch. If you switch it on, then Recog will delay 1/2 a second to see  
if you'll draw another stroke -- this way you can build a shape by  
using 2 or more strokes. The downside is the recognition itself will  
be delayed by 1/2 a second. I'm *not* including an actual switch or  
option in the final Instaviz (unless persuaded otherwise...), so I'd  
like your opinions on which feels more natural to you, and I'll take  
that as the basis for the Instaviz shape recognition.

Do try it out and send the mailing list your feedback. There's no  
server submission in this app so the only way I'll know what you think  
is when you *tell* me what you think.

Once you try out this app, you should stop submitting shapes and lines  
through Guesstur and Edgie respectively.

The twin engines powering Instaviz (Recog, the shape recognizer, and  
Graphviz*, the graph layout library) are now ready. It's time to build  
the machine!




Cheers, Glen Low


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* -- in a sense, Graphviz has been ready since, um, 1990, being an  
AT&T project. I've only recently written plugins to interface with  
Instaviz and rebuilt the lot for the iPhone.