Hybrid design process

[ron.sanpedro]

I think the photo of our design process says a lot. Revit, projected on a white board, then drawn on top of. Digital camera for capture. Not low tech, not high tech. Basically Hybrid and Appropriate Tech. Gotta love it!

Best,
Gordon

[Scott D Davis]

Did you see the video of the guy that turned a Wii controller into an infared sensor? He made two "pens" with LED lights, and the Wii remote is mounted above the projected drawing surface, and it translates all pen movements into drawn graphics on the computer. I'll try and find the link.....its on Youtube.

[TroyGates]

We need Jon Anunson to post images of the setup that he developed for his company. It uses 3 projectors for viewing plus another projector onto a whiteboard for marking up.

[mhulme]

The gent you're looking for is Johnny Lee - his website (with videos).

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

Here's a recent interview from IT Conversations with more info:

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/...etail3535.html

Enjoy.

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Mark J. Hulme
www.studiofloat.com

[janunson]

Hey - I don't have any great pictures yet, but here's one that a reporter took for an article.

The screen is 24' wide, 6' tall and driven by 3 WXGA projectors. There's a 4th projector that shoots @ 90 degrees to the screen onto a white board at 6'x8' where we can sketch on it. We have a plugin for a 4th monitor/touch screen, but the one we own now is installed in another conference room (42" LCD touch screen) and it's really useful there, so i'm waiting on some more budget to look into the touchscreen in our big room. (we were going to embed it flat on a table.)

[Scott D Davis]

The gent you're looking for is Johnny Lee - his website (with videos).

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

Here's a recent interview from IT Conversations with more info:

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/...etail3535.html

Enjoy.

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Mark J. Hulme
www.studiofloat.com

Yes! Thats it! Wii remote becomes infrared sensor!

[janunson]

Hey - I don't have any great pictures yet, but here's one that a reporter took for an article.

The screen is 24' wide, 6' tall and driven by 3 WXGA projectors. There's a 4th projector that shoots @ 90 degrees to the screen onto a white board at 6'x8' where we can sketch on it. We have a plugin for a 4th monitor/touch screen, but the one we own now is installed in another conference room (42" LCD touch screen) and it's really useful there, so i'm waiting on some more budget to look into the touchscreen in our big room. (we were going to embed it flat on a table.)

Oh - i should point out, in the spirit of this thread - these are just standard low-end WXGA projectors, no edge blenders, not image processors... we droped a pair of dual-head cards in a custom PC, and run the 4 projectors w/ the 2 dual head cards. The projected images we just tweak the projector mounting really carefully to get the continuous image effect. So it's not super-techy, or super expensive.