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Thomas R. Koll
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+# Royal Table of Ur
+
+An interactive table to play the ancient Royal Game of Ur.
+
+The coffee-table is cut into to place expoy resin with embedded LEDs into slots.
+The playing board is three rows of eight RGB LEDs, on the outer rows each there's two cells
+that are not part of the playing field but for keeping inventory of the stones
+not yet in the game and stones already scored. Those fields need a toned down design
+compared to the playing field. There's other fields that have certain meaning
+and need a more elaborate design.
+All cells are all equipped with capacitive sensors allow to move the stones
+across the field.
+Besides the playing field is a 2 by 2 for the dice. The games uses four-pointed
+dice with white spots on two of the points. Basically this is binary and so is
+the table's dice. The dice are thrown by swiping in a circle over the dice,
+maybe a pulsing and moving circle will help hinting this action.
+The stones of the active player pulse, but only the possible moves, to indicate their turn.
+The player then taps one of their pulsing stones (or the not-yet-in field)
+and the target field that's now flashing to end their turn.
+Each player has a different colour as the LEDs are all RGB (or RGBW?)
+Colour selection happens by puttng the game into a config mode (press all four stack fields?)
+and turning on the dice wheel to move along the saturation scale.
+The game is put back into normal mode by pressing any of the stack fields.
+The fields are squares of 3.14cm length.
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	1	+# Royal Table of Ur
	2	+
	3	+An interactive table to play the ancient Royal Game of Ur.
	4	+
	5	+The coffee-table is cut into to place expoy resin with embedded LEDs into slots.
	6	+The playing board is three rows of eight RGB LEDs, on the outer rows each there's two cells
	7	+that are not part of the playing field but for keeping inventory of the stones
	8	+not yet in the game and stones already scored. Those fields need a toned down design
	9	+compared to the playing field. There's other fields that have certain meaning
	10	+and need a more elaborate design.
	11	+All cells are all equipped with capacitive sensors allow to move the stones
	12	+across the field.
	13	+Besides the playing field is a 2 by 2 for the dice. The games uses four-pointed
	14	+dice with white spots on two of the points. Basically this is binary and so is
	15	+the table's dice. The dice are thrown by swiping in a circle over the dice,
	16	+maybe a pulsing and moving circle will help hinting this action.
	17	+The stones of the active player pulse, but only the possible moves, to indicate their turn.
	18	+The player then taps one of their pulsing stones (or the not-yet-in field)
	19	+and the target field that's now flashing to end their turn.
	20	+Each player has a different colour as the LEDs are all RGB (or RGBW?)
	21	+Colour selection happens by puttng the game into a config mode (press all four stack fields?)
	22	+and turning on the dice wheel to move along the saturation scale.
	23	+The game is put back into normal mode by pressing any of the stack fields.
	24	+The fields are squares of 3.14cm length.
	25	+