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Interactive and Collaborative Tiled-Display

http://www.icwall.nl

Objective

Within the context of the SURF MultiVla project, the subproject ICWall focuses on visualization and scalable projection technologies. More precisely, it aims at three points:

• Development of a so called tiled display,
• Development of a software environment for the use of the tiled display possibly together with other visualization environments,
• Development of a number of case studies within Physics and Bio-medical sciences cursus, in order to test the both technical and didactical aspects of hardware and software developed.

The characteristics of tiled displays are:

• Scalability
  The size of the display is determined by the number of projectors used. A small setup (around 8 projectors coupled to a cluster of PC’s) can easily be used for medium-sized groups (~ 30+ persons)
• Standard components
  The setup can be realized using off-the-shelf components. This reduces the price substantially.
• Resolution
  The resolution of the screen is the sum of the resolution of the individual projectors.
• Size
  The large format allows a wide variety of different applications. An advantage is the saturation of field of view and the possibility for simultaneous projection of different types of information.

Contact

Dr. H.J.W. Spoelder
e-mail: hs@nat.vu.nl
Tel. + 31-(0)20-44 47866
Fax + 31-(0)20-44 47999

Vrije Universiteit - Faculty of Sciences
Division of Physics and Astronomy - Physics Applied Computer Science
De Boelelaan 1081 1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands