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| − | The C-Wall features a single screen, stereo | + | The C-Wall features a single screen, stereo wall, driven by two dual AMD Opteron PCs with Nvidia Quadro 3400 video cards. They are driving four JVC HD2k projectors with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels each, of which we are using 1920x960 pixels to achieve a square image. The projector images are displayed edge to edge without an overlap. We use circular polarization filters to separate the stereo images. The concept of the C-Wall is described [http://www.evl.uic.edu/core.php?mod=4&type=1&indi=234 here]. |
===Varrier=== | ===Varrier=== | ||
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===Multipurpose Room (Black Box)=== | ===Multipurpose Room (Black Box)=== | ||
| − | 2-story, reconfigurable performance space for experiments with | + | The multipurpose room at Calit2 is a 2-story, reconfigurable performance space for experiments with the audience’s relationship to the physical environment and mediated elements. The IVL runs a stereo projection setup consisting of dual Christie projectors with a resolution of 1600x1200 pixels each, driven by a dual AMD Opteron PC with a fast RAID array. |
| − | Digital Theatre | + | ===Digital Theatre=== |
| + | Calit2 owns a 200-seat theatre with ultra-high resolution video and 20 channel surround sound. The IVL runs a Sony SRX-R110 projector for uncompressed 4K (8 mega-pixels) digital cinema, which is four times as many pixels than the current HD standard. | ||
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| + | It is capable of rojected by a Sony® SRX-R110 projector powered by a Silicon Graphics Prism™ visualization system, streaming at 24 frames-per-second from the SGI® InfiniteStorage RM-660 disk array onto a screen 18' high by 32 feet wide. 4K imagery is projected at 8 megapixels/frame resolution, four times HDTV. The SGI Prism is connected by 10Gb/sec networking to the global OptIPuter, making the Calit2 theater the most advanced digital cinema theater currently in operation in the world. | ||
Revision as of 18:21, 17 June 2007
Our lab has four major visualization environments.
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C-Wall
The C-Wall features a single screen, stereo wall, driven by two dual AMD Opteron PCs with Nvidia Quadro 3400 video cards. They are driving four JVC HD2k projectors with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels each, of which we are using 1920x960 pixels to achieve a square image. The projector images are displayed edge to edge without an overlap. We use circular polarization filters to separate the stereo images. The concept of the C-Wall is described here.
Varrier
The Varrier wall, aka Lambdavision Display System, consists of 60 LCD monitors, arranged in a semi cylinder. It can generate autostereoscopic images at a resolution of about 40 million pixels per eye. The system consists of 31 dual AMD Opteron machines, each with 4GB RAM, 1.6TB disk arrays, dual gigabit ethernet NICs and NVidia Geforce 7900 video cards. Each display node drives two 20" NEC LCD monitors (1600 x 1200 pixels). The system is running on Suse Linux 10.0. We support three software environments which can drive the cluster:
Multipurpose Room (Black Box)
The multipurpose room at Calit2 is a 2-story, reconfigurable performance space for experiments with the audience’s relationship to the physical environment and mediated elements. The IVL runs a stereo projection setup consisting of dual Christie projectors with a resolution of 1600x1200 pixels each, driven by a dual AMD Opteron PC with a fast RAID array.
Digital Theatre
Calit2 owns a 200-seat theatre with ultra-high resolution video and 20 channel surround sound. The IVL runs a Sony SRX-R110 projector for uncompressed 4K (8 mega-pixels) digital cinema, which is four times as many pixels than the current HD standard.
It is capable of rojected by a Sony® SRX-R110 projector powered by a Silicon Graphics Prism™ visualization system, streaming at 24 frames-per-second from the SGI® InfiniteStorage RM-660 disk array onto a screen 18' high by 32 feet wide. 4K imagery is projected at 8 megapixels/frame resolution, four times HDTV. The SGI Prism is connected by 10Gb/sec networking to the global OptIPuter, making the Calit2 theater the most advanced digital cinema theater currently in operation in the world.
