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Calit2 Advisory Board Meeting
Submitted by sungjin on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 12:19Calit2@UCI hosted the semi-annual advisory board meeting on July 23. Prof. Stephen Jenks gave another perfect presentation about the HIPerWall research. Kai Doerr from UCSD was connected through OptIPuter network and gave a brief presentation through the HD video conferencing.
Awesome Artwork from Mark Stock
Submitted by sungjin on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 12:26Mark Stock again kindly sent us another set of his amazing digital artwork.
"... depicts an imaginary terrain, the elevations of which represent measurements of mRNA expression from seven different regions of brain tissue from ten strains of lab mouse..." from his website.
This almost feels like "the cake is a lie", hence the picture of me being mouse-d-up.
"Sprawl"
Both works are 43200 x 43200 pixels which is beyond the resolution of HIPerWall by far.
This is a youtube video showing these on HIPerWall.
Check out more pictures here.
The Stanford DisplayWall Project
Submitted by sungjin on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 14:56Stanford School of Medicine is working on a display wall project for their new building and has tested an old version of TileViewer more than a year ago. A terribly late post but here we go.
The Stanford DisplayWall Project (HD) from Kingsley Willis on Vimeo.
Andrew Connolly, MD, featured in the video gave a short but very nice explanation of the necessity and utility of a high resolution display wall for research and education.
One interesting story is that at that time we provided the software to them thinking a 3D-mouse type input will be perfect for professors to navigate images while standing/teaching. Yet, professors did not like the 3D-mouse idea and wanted to have more simple yet intuitive control schemes.
A lesson to learn: do not assume your user interface design will be perfect for the end users.
Leadership Southern California
Submitted by sungjin on Wed, 03/04/2009 - 13:04Shellie Nazarenus from Calit2 kindly informed us of this article featuring the demonstration Prof. Jenks gave to the Leadership Southern California 2009 Fellows last month.
It is always pleasure for us to support local community and leaders providing them the demonstration of the state-of-the-art technology such as HIPerWall.
Flickr photos
MacArthur Foundation Grantees Visit
Submitted by sungjin on Fri, 02/27/2009 - 10:35About 100 grantees of MacArthur Foundation from the digital media and learning initiative from around the world visited HIPerWall and Calit2 Feb 19-20.
Prof. Jenks and I greeted these very enthusiastic guests by showing two walls.
Website is back
Submitted by sungjin on Wed, 12/17/2008 - 11:45After some hardware reconfiguration, the server is backup. There are some missing sections including members section, but basic functions are working and will update the rest of them soon. Thank you.
EDIT: There are some problems with Gallery section. Will be fixed shortly.
EDIT: Finally all links are fixed for now. Will add more sections later.
Hydrology Visualization
Submitted by sungjin on Thu, 11/13/2008 - 15:28During the summer 2008, Prof. Stephen Jenks supervised Ilya Sukharnikov, an undergraduate student, to develop a large-scale animation as a part of 2008 SURF-IT (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Information Technology). The first result was the hydrology visualization based on data from Prof. Bisher Imam and Kuo-lin Hsu.
The displayed animation is 240 frames ~5000x5000 pixel satellite weather data of Cyclone Gonu, which battered the coast of Iran and Oman last year. This animation is about 15 megabytes of data compiled from hourly rainfall measured during the event.
From Calit2 Interface Fall 2008 issue (PDF),
“We want to see how visualization can help us dig deeper into the datasets we have,” says Imam, whose goal is to have HIPerWall software visualize data on the fly instead of relying on pre-made animation. “Somebody who wanted to do a rainfall analysis could just plug the data into the program and get images immediately,” he says.This animation and Prof. Imam's research has been presented to a group of hydrometeorologists from Iran.
(From left to right, Prof. Soroosh Sorooshian greeting guests, Prof. G.P. Li introducing Calit2 as a catalyst among different research groups, and Prof. Bisher Imam presenting his research)
Engineering 1
Submitted by sungjin on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 13:43Prof. Stephen Jenks had a freshman class, Engineering 1 for engineering students using HIPerWall and baby HIPerWall on 11/05/2008.
The left side is the original HIPerWall (50 30inch Apple Cinema Display) and the right is a new baby HIPerWall (20 46inch Samsung Monitor with an embedded PC).
The baby HIPerWall displays Prof. Jenks tablet PC running a powerpoint presentation and 720p 15FPS webcam live feed of students.
HIPerWall Samsung Edition at Infocomm 2008
Submitted by sungjin on Wed, 11/05/2008 - 11:33Again, we have been working closely with Samsung to demonstrate a display wall. The first result was shown at CeBIT March 2008 in Hannover, Germany. And three months later, a 40-tile display wall and 9-tile wall were shown at Infocomm 2008.
Prof. Stephen Jenks and Dr. Sung-Jin Kim went Las Vegas Convention center and demonstrated HIPerWall technology.
Baby HIPerWall at Samsung booth, CeBIT 2008
Submitted by sungjin on Fri, 10/31/2008 - 15:54We have been working closely with Samsung almost an year to develop a display wall demostration system with combination of our software technology and Samsung's PC-embedded TV monitors.
The early result was shown at CeBIT March 2008 in Hannover, Germany. At this time, only Big-image functionality was displayed because other features such as videos are not fully refined.
The following pictures show the 5x4 46inch display wall showing off an aerial photograph of UC Irvine and also other big images.
More stories with Samsung will follow soon.
