[PD] Extended View Toolkit

Pedro Lopes pedro.lopes at ist.utl.pt
Fri Feb 25 00:01:34 CET 2011


Congratulations, the array of Ps3eye (so it seems) cameras is amazingly
simple and has a nice result in panoramic rendering/blending. Love the cave
effect generated there.

Congratulations on the project, I'm definitely on the lookout for this one.

Best,
Pedro

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:53 PM, <news at petervenus.de> wrote:

>
> Hello All!
>
> I want to announce the official release of the Extended View Toolkit.
>
> http://puredata.info/Members/Weitsicht/extended-view-toolkit/
>
> The Extended View Toolkit is a set of abstractions developed for the art
> installation "Extended View streamed".
> It is intended to be an easy solution to experiment and realise panoramic
> video and complex multiscreen projection
> environments to createimmersive media experiences.
>
> It features a set of abstractions that are able to combine multiple related
> image-sources
> (like video input, video playback) into aconsistent panoramic image.
> The source-material, e.g. the camera to display has to be aligned
> horicontally, since image-combination
> is based on simple, openGL basededge-blending and not algorithmic pix by
> pixel comparison.
>
> Furthermore it features abstractions to create multi-screen,
> multi-projector environments to enable
> correct representation of (not only)panoramic material. The projection
> abstractions can be combined
> to form big screens out of multiple projectors with softedge
> betweenoverlapping borders of single
> projectors and contain a vertex model that can be adjusted in 4,
> respectively 9 points, so that
> projections onchallenging geometric surfaces is possible.
>
> Additionally, all abstractions are controllable via OSC-styled
> send/receive-messages, which simplifies
> OSC-based external control.
>
> Also, since streaming video was part of the project, a gstreamer based
> streaming solution was developed
> by Peter Innerhofer to distribute panoramic/multistream video over
> network.
> It can be found here: [https://github.com/peonic/streaming]
>
> Libraries needed: mrpeachBuilt with pd 42.6 and GEM 92.3
>
> Credits:
> Shader Programming/openGL: Cyrille Henry
> GEM: Marian Weger
> Prototyping/GEM: Peter Venus
> Streaming: Peter Innerhofer
> Initiation/Supervision: Winfried Ritsch
>
> A short demo-clip can be found here: [http://vimeo.com/20311051]
>
> The project was made possible through support from IEM-Institute for
> Electronic Music and Acoustics (iem.at)
> and CO-ME-DI-A.
> The CO-ME-DI-A project is supported by the Education, Audiovisual & Culture
> Executive Agency (EACEA)
> of the European Comission forthe period 2007 - 2010 ([
> http://www.comedia.eu.org/]).
>
>
> Your feedback is welcome!
>
> Peter
>
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