[AG-TECH] Geowall / Agave help

[Anibal Vega-Montijo]

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:
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>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. 
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>http://www.sve.man.ac.uk/mvc/Research/rvamira/
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>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.
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>A picture from the UK e-Science all hands stand, and some blurb:
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>http://www.sve.man.ac.uk/mvc/Research/sage/
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>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.
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>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
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>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.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Tom Coffin
>Sent: 01 November 2005 21:10
>To: Anibal Vega-Montijo; ag-tech at 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:
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>
>>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 (avega at 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
>>    
>>
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Anibal Vega-Montijo (avega at 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