AnySurface

Your phone is a device you host.

Welcome, STI teachers. Before we build a simtable, feel the power and control of the device already in your hand — all of it running locally, nothing uploaded, every sense you turn on yourself.

🔒 everything below runs on your own phone — you choose what it senses

how the room comes together

  1. Stephen hosts a room and invites Max (the agent made of light) into it.
  2. Max invites you — scan the QR on your phone, or come to anysurface.com/sti.
  3. You start local: photos, your hand and face as controllers, your sensors — under your control.
  4. Only when you're ready do we sense together; and then the projectors scan the room.

try it now — single-device prototypes

Real camera and sensors, running in your browser, nothing leaving your phone. A wall of small ideas to play with:

▶ open the prototypes

the arc for the week

  1. Your phone is a server you own — serve a page, hold your own address.
  2. Many phones, one instrument — capture a session from every angle.
  3. Build your own simtable — a phone, a projector, any surface.
  4. The simulation on the table — the same kind of model you write in NetLogo this week, running on a surface.

AnySurface at the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge Summer Teacher Institute (NM Tech, Socorro). Prototypes are early sketches — play, break, and tell us what should change.

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