[PD] Extended View Toolkit

[Pagano, Patrick]

Yes very cool and useful

Patrick Pagano B.S.,M.F.A
Digital Media Engineer
UF Digital Worlds Institute
(352)294-2020


On Feb 24, 2011, at 7:28 PM, "Jose Luis Santorcuato" <santorcuato76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> OMG...Cool.... ill test and comment...
> 
> Congratulations!!!!!
> 
> José
> 
> 2011/2/24 Pedro Lopes <pedro.lopes at ist.utl.pt>:
>> 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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>> 
>> 
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