[PD-announce] new version: Extended View Toolkit v0.4 Rotterdam

[Peter Venus]

Hello All!

We proudly announce the new version of ExtendedViewToolkit - the 
PureData/GEM abstraction library
for panoramic image/video creation and projection mapping.
It has been a long, but productive time since our last release. Tons of 
new features and fixes wait for being discovered by you.
This new version was mainly done during a residency at moddr_/WORM in 
Rotterdam.

Amongst other changes, you are looking on a completely re-designed 
storage-solution, that enables you to create scene-based video-mapping 
setups - with the possibility to add transitions between your scenes. 
Within each scene, you can automate basically every parameter in every 
module of the toolkit individually.
We made a small technical teaser, to show what's possible with the 
scenes: http://vimeo.com/51567993

In addition to our multi-camera panoramic content solution, we 
integrated a module for creating 360-degree panoramic content made with 
spherical, one camera based, lens- or mirror-systems.
Also, a new video player with instant and saveable controls for 
in/out-points, fade-times and loop, waits for being used within your 
performance.
On the projection-side we added a module with 5x5 cornerpoints to allow 
more detailed settings when projecting on uneven surfaces with just one 
projection module. Furthermore we implemented a function to adjust the 
perspective distortion into the projection modules.

We sticked to our fear of externals and made the whole toolkit out of 
plain PD and GEM without any other external libraries. For the usage of 
the remote-control features we recommend the usage of mrpeach´s OSC 
library. We tested the toolkit on different machines, and did not have 
any issues on Linux, OSX 10.6.8, 10.7.1 and also on Windows 7. If you 
discover any problems, please get in touch with us.

Thanks to all the people who constantly support the development of the 
toolkit, especially Cyrille Henry, IOhannes, Seppo, Walter&Birgit of 
moddr and Patrick Pagano.

Download it here:
https://github.com/extendedview/extended_view_toolkit

If you use it, we strongly encourage you to send us links, videos, 
images, etc. of your projects.
We are amazingly interested to see what you create!

Cheers,
Peter & Marian

http://extendedview.mur.at