Very cool! Thanks for sharing Adrian. I’d love to see some video of it in action.
/Keith. On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Adrian Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I hope this of interest, and since it's the second big project we've pulled > off here in London using Quartz Composer recently I thought I'd post it to > the list. > > We've just finished working on a large scale, 32-screen 12m long interactive > wall for the Natural History Museum in Kensington. The wall is like a giant > ambient slideshow of images, sounds and videos relating to climate change, > and reacts when you walk near it by changing the colour of imagery and > lighting. > > > > > > Embedded into the wall are six touchscreens that show preset case studies > about how the Earth's climate is changing and the research done by the > museum scientists in , these are triggered by infrared sensors in the > ceiling and allow visitors to find out more. > > > > > > The wall runs off eight Quad Core Mac Pros, each one powering four displays. > Each display runs an individual process with a Quartz Composer QTZ file that > controls the ambient imagery shown. We're able to move content across > multi-screens by using Composition Loaders that crop a specific region of a > composition to a pre-determine coordinates, and we synchronise playback of > content by sending broadcast UDP signals. > > The lighting is made of an array of Traxon 1PXL RGB modules, each light > using 3 DMX channels to control the red/green/blue colour and we use > Kineme's Art-Net tools to communicate with them via an Artistic Licence > Net-Lynx O/P. > > We have an array of 36 passive infrared sensors mounted in the ceiling, and > these are monitored using two Starting Point Systems µChamelon devices, an > USB controlled 18 port digital I/O device. All of this functionality is > achieved within Quartz Composer using JavaScript patches and just a handful > of custom plug-ins. > > The whole installation is part of the Natural History Museum's new Darwin > Centre, which was opened on Monday by HRH Prince William of Wales and Sir > David Attenborough and opened to the public on Tuesday. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Adrian. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/songcarver%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
