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Over the course of this semester Tash and I have pursued quite a long line of enquiry to arrive at the point we are at now.

Initially we intended to pursue a multi-touch system capable of tracking both multiple finger inputs and fiducal markers, using this system we intended to introduce physical input devices such as dials that could be recognised and calibrated by the fiducal software on the fly. on the software end of this design we explored concepts such as cloud computing, virtual scrapbooking and the desktop metaphor. However after doing some more in-depth research it became painfully apparent that we would need an expensive short range projector for the setup we wanted. On top of this we found that every idea we were coming up with was already being explored simultaneously in different parts of the world. Rather than compromise we decided to follow our line of questioning into more rewarding territory.

Augmented reality was our general area of interest so we decided to look at a low-end solution that could be easily demonstrated. We started by looking at the marker based toolkit in processing but quickly realised it wasnt effective for what we wanted to do. We decided to use Flash in conjunction with Papervision 3D and a FLAR library because they are relatively well documented and easy to use (apart from some japanese commenting in FLARtoolkit).