Hi Martin; Thanks for the information in the projects at Manchester.
I think that you can try DVTS to transmit the two videos from the Sony camcorders to get a better video quality but using 60Mbps. Anibal Martin Turner wrote: >Just an aside. > >At Manchester Computing we are great fans of both GeoWalls (for 3D >stereoscopic visualization) and the AG. Like having a GeoWall as portable as >possible for remote use [luggable unit]; > >A couple of projects and installations that may interest: > >1. We can now transmit the TGS/amira scientific visualization software output >from the rendering screen - as two vic streams - that can be received by the >GeoWall via AG. Picture at the bottom of the page shows the setup. > >http://www.sve.man.ac.uk/mvc/Research/rvamira/ > >2. We are constructing a stereoscopic recording system - using two Sony >camcorders connected to the GeoWall shuttle - these can record and >simultaneously transmit as two vic streams or as a single anglyph (okay >quality is not great due to the cross coding of colours within the vic coder) >vic stream. > >A picture from the UK e-Science all hands stand, and some blurb: > >http://www.sve.man.ac.uk/mvc/Research/sage/ > >3. Finally if you can persuade your local AG room - it is possible to >construct a fixed dual use stereoscopic and AG room. Within the e-Science >centre at Manchester Computing; Room 1:10 combines both facilities. > >We have effectively a cluster of three GeoWalls - switched with a normal four >screen AG node; that use the Geowall projectors. This way you can have one >third of the space (about a 7mx2m screen) a GeoWall can run and the other >two-thirds as normal 2D AG screens etc. > >Missing a website with pictures - will set one up. > >This system was installed as separate units to help users but using them >together is not that tricky - although we run separate Access Grid software on >each of the (four!) machines [actually we have never run everything at once]. > >And a bit of advertisement as you will see some of this at this years SC >Global event: > >Tuesday 15th November: >1:30PM - 2:10PM SC Global Showcase Collaborative >Virtual Reality Augmented Stereoscopic Codecs over the Access Grid >Environment Anja Le Blanc, Martin John Turner 618-620 > >Yours Martin Turner > >Aside - For fun; it is possible to run two instances of powerpoint; one for >each eye at the same time - although no easy way to change slide slickly. So >stereoscopic powerpoint. > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf >Of Tom Coffin >Sent: 01 November 2005 21:10 >To: Anibal Vega-Montijo; ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov >Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Geowall / Agave help > > >What we do at ACCESS is the place the display of the Geowall >adjacent to the display of the AccessGrid - There are >experimental applications which can be initiated by icons >in the venue client of the Accessgrid - still you will >want the displays adjacent to each other to enable the >applications of video, audio and the visualization. > >_________________________________________________ >At 12:29 PM 11/1/2005, Anibal Vega-Montijo wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>I am Anibal Vega-Montijo from the University of Puerto Rico Medical >>Sciences Campus. We are in the process of building an AG node. We also >>bought the equipment Agave/Geowall. How can we integrate AG with Geowall? >>We are in a medical research enviroment so we like to have a collaborative >>3d enviroment to view molecules, proteins, etc. >> >>Anibal >> >>-- >>Anibal Vega-Montijo (av...@rcm.upr.edu) >>Systems Programmer >>Center for Information Architecture in Research >>Research Centers in Minority Institutions >>University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus >>(787) 758-2525 ext 2193 >> >> > > >___________________________________________________________ >Tom Coffin .......................... tcof...@ncsa.uiuc.edu > > NCSA-ACCESS cel: 703-477-5948 > 901 North Stuart Street, #800 tel: 703-248-0105 > Arlington, Virginia 22203 fax: 703-248-0100 > >_________________________ http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~tcoffin > > > > -- Anibal Vega-Montijo (av...@rcm.upr.edu) Systems Programmer Center for Information Architecture in Research Research Centers in Minority Institutions University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus (787) 758-2525 ext 2193
