Showing posts with label Carnegie Mellon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carnegie Mellon. Show all posts

Jul 8, 2010

AquaLux 3D: Text, video, images, and even Tetris on a multi-layered water display

I recently came across the INAVATE website, and I've found several articles on topics that I'm sure will interest my blog readers. The article that intrigued me today was about the AquaLux 3D project by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. In the videos, you can see how text, video, and images can be created with light and water droplets. The researchers used this technology to create a multi-dimensional Tetris game!

A Multi-Layered Display with Water Drops (non-technical version)

"Using a projector and rows of water drop emitters, we create a multi-layer display that can be used for text, videos, and interactive games."

How the Water-drop Multi-display Works: SIGGRAPH 2010 Submission:


RELATED
Projecting Onto Water for 3D Show
INAVATE 7/8/2010
Peter Barnum, Ph.D. Student (AquaLux 3D researcher)
A Multi-layered Display with Water Drops(pdf)
Peter C. Barnum, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan and Takeo Kanade
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH), July 2010.
"A Projector-Camera System for Creating a Display with Water Drops"
P. C. Barnum, S. G. Narasimhan, and T. Kanade
Workshop on Projector-Camera Systems (PROCAMS), in conjunction with CVPR, June 2009. (Best paper award)
[PDF] [Slides with videos]

Aug 19, 2007

About: Roomba - Human Family Interaction (NSF)

The National Science Foundation has a great article about a researcher from Carnegie-Mellon, Jodi Forlizzi who studies how families interact with their "adopted" Roombas.

Although Roombas were intended to function as lowly vacuums, when hacked, they just might have some interactive multimedia potential! Having a Roomba in the family room- and the classroom - might be a way to interest young people in exploring engineering and technology.



Related
NSF article

Techeblog article with video clips and link to some downloadable code, if you are so inclined:

Five Top Roomba Hacks

1. Roomba Frogger Redux
2. Super Roomba with airsoft gun and laser sight
3. Caroling Roombas
4. Wiimote + Roomba
5. Cellphone-controlled Roomba