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Guernica in 3D

Submitted by phil lavery on Fri, 27/11/2009 - 17:36

Active glasses for 3D ready projectors

Submitted by phil lavery on Wed, 28/10/2009 - 22:13

Cheap #3D ready DLP projectors are coming. So this technology could finally make its way into mainstream education. But, requires expensive active glasses.  How cheap do the glasses need to become before schools will even consider them? 

Present3D now supports CLUT with DICOM Volumes!

As part of the ongoing Joint Medical Visualisation Project with Aberdeen University, Present3D has now been updated to use Hounsfield Units and allow Colour Look Up Tables (CLUT) to be used. A full version of the above clip in side x side stereo can be downloaded from here:

More information about this project can be found here:

Stereo Movies available to download :

This is a short clip from a side x side stereo movie created with Present3D from a dicom series of CT slices.

A number of full screen stereo movies are available to be downloaded here :

 

What is 3D Stereoscopic Visualisation

So what is Stereoscopic Visualisation? It is the way your brain expects to see things, with a left eye view and a right eye view, and from the minor differences that around 60mm of eye separation creates in these two views, the brain is able to calculate depth and therefore able to construct and understand the real world we experience every day. It is the difference between looking at a flat photograph or illustration of an object and feeling that you can reach out and touch the object itself.

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Realtime Interactive Stereoscopic Visualisation combines modern stereoscopic display technologies with a powerful computer that can handle huge amounts of data and allow it to be manipulated interactively in realtime. Until very recently the prohibitive costs and complexity of large scale, real time, interactive stereoscopic visualisation limited its use to multi-national companies like BP, Shell, BMW, Mercedes, Nokia or to some very fortunate University Computing Science or Research labs.... But times have now changed, a standard consumer computer based system can not only compete, but blow away, those big systems of only last year. And with a complete system costing only a little more than a whiteboard installation it is now possible for schools to gain the very real benefits that stereo visualisation brings.

 

Recent Events

As well as one off events in schools throughout the year, the DLF also supplies a service to other educational venues and providers. 

 

Gravity Challenge : North Ayrshire

May - June 2009:

Low Cost Stereo Visualisation

 Low Cost Stereo Visualisation for Higher Education:

Over the last few years Phil Lavery has been doing a series of events and seminars to introduce low cost, easy to use, but very powerful Real time Interactive 3D Stereoscopic Visualisation to Higher Education and Research Institutions.

 

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 Orkney Science Festival. 

3D : Bring them back ALIVE!

Coming Soon

 

 
This show is a further extension of the Gravity Show + Workshop concept.  Where, as with Gravity, the pupils are using our voting pads, but this time how they vote determines what happens next in the show. So, as a group they are making decisions. Amongst other things, the show covers the working of the heart, lungs, and digestive system using a mix real volumetric data from MRI and CT scans and 3D models and animations. This all happens in the context of a space mission, that has encountered problems while navigating through the Kuiper belt, at the outer edge of our solar system. The ship is rescued by an alien ship, manned by solely by robots. The first part of the challenge, is for the pupils to help the robots make decisions on how to revive the two crew, who are in cryo chambers. Then various emergencies arise that the students need to deal with. The show ends with the students having to make a major ethical decision... then, after the show, the class, now broken down into groups, and teacher continue to debate and research the issues raised, to enable a report of their revised decision to be submitted to us, within a specified time,  in the form of a movie, podcast, powerpoint, website or a magazine article. We are currently trying to raise a small amount of additional funds to allow us to offer prizes to both the winning schools and the members of the winning team along the line of the "What Maxwell did for us" competition we ran in 2006.