Our submission is an interactive 3D projection image viewer. The system polls pictures from the State Library of Queensland’s database and projects them on three cylinders. A piece of software animates the projection and controls the user interaction. Users can navigate through the picture collection using their mobile phone. They can e.g. navigate through the collection, speed up the animation, select how many pictures are displayed, display text that describes the pictures’ metadata and manipulate the size of the projection on each cylinder.
This system is designed to become a fix installation in a library. It aims to revitalise pictures from the library archive by morphing them with the physical environment in the library, hence making the archive more ambient and accessible to visitors. The prototype illustrates a 3D projection mapping on three cylinders, but the projection could technically be mapped on any physical object or part of the library infrastructure. The mobile phone interface is designed to provide a more engaging interaction with library pictures than on using a desktop computer and browser interface.
Submitted demonstration video: http://www.flickr.com/photos/markbil/5781065056/in/pool-1565188@N22/
Full video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5br1TVrdko
submitted by:
John Howland (jwhida@gmail.com) and
Mark Bilandzic (markbilandzic@gmail.com)
URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/markbil/5781065056/in/pool-1565188@N22/
