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Real-time Interactive 3D Video-Wall Software

Digital Radiance, working with noted national design firms Edwin Schlossberg, Inc., Redmon Group and Design and Production, designed and developed the interactive 3D video-wall software for the state-of-the-art Currents of Creativity permanent exhibit at the new John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, D.C.

Located in the museum's remarkable Gallery of Imagination, the interactive exhibit features six "creation stations" facing a 24-foot-wide  x 10-foot-high video-wall.  At the creation stations, museum visitors are invited to create a personal collage from a collection of hundreds of religious images.  Upon completion, the collage is scrolled off the top of the creation station's screen and simultaneously scrolled on to the bottom of the video-wall in front of the creation station.  The visitor's collage then gently drifts and rises across the video-wall with other visitor-created collages, accompanied by a real-time mix of music, sound-effects and background artwork and text.

Unique to this exhibit is the real-time nature of the video-wall's content, all controlled by Digital Radiance's custom 3D software.  Unlike video-wall exhibits that display pre-rendered animation or video, this 2560 x 1024-pixel exhibit features real-time path-based animation of up to thirteen onscreen 24-bit images ranging in size from 512 x 512 pixels to as large as 1024 x 1024 pixels.  All of the drifting images can have simultaneous effects applied such as 3D rotation, image translucency, fading, blurring, and multi-frame movie-loops.  The custom software, written in Visual C++ and OpenGL, runs on a Windows 2000-based system with a single, dual-pipeline 3Dlabs Wildcat 4210 graphics card.

Digital Radiance also created a scripting language for the software, allowing the exhibit's creative artists to easily shape the final look and feel.  The software communicates asynchronously via the exhibit's LAN with the six creation stations and the audio applications, providing a seamless, real-time, fault-tolerant distributed system running for thousands of visitors every day.


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