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MPC has posted a video on YouTube showing the creation of a “Data Lab”, a data processing cluster, designed to process the data from 56 RED cameras shooting simultaneously.

MPC set up this mobile Data Lab in a hotel room in Toronto to capture and process the data from a shoot with 56 RED cameras shooting simultaneously. The data was processed to give the editor the rushes the same day with enough time to put together an edit and change anything for the next day. Forty one hours of footage was processed over the course of the three day shoot.

I count somewhere around 27 Apple Cinema Displays iMacs, But they only show a pair of MacPro’s and a few 2U Rack systems.  If I can get more specs, I’ll update.  Video after the break.

Update 9/5/2009: We’ve got more info on what this is.

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Graphics, Hardware mpc, processing, red, video

As Randall mentioned a couple of days ago, Edward Tufte will be touring the United States over the second half of this year to talk on Presenting Data and Information.  I have registered for the Cincinnati talk on August 25th and will be interviewing Mr. Tufte following the lecture.  (Incidentally, Edward Tufte refers to himself as ET, and I must admit I was half tempted to email “Phone home” back to him.)

What do you, dear readers, want to know from Tufte?  This is a chance to get your questions answered by the king of data visualization himself.  As an added incentive, the interview will be recorded for a podcast and, if your question is selected, your name will be mentioned before it is posed.  Nothing like free publicity to get the creative juices flowing.

Off to find a reliable voice recorder.  Let the questions roll in.

Update 9/10/2009: The result of the lecture and interview is now available.

Graphics feature, interview, tufte

A fascinating new product called “Layar” is taking the internet by storm with it’s augmented reality “Browser” capability that runs on the Android G1 phone.

The upcoming Layar Android application enables sets of viewable data to be displayed in the viewfinder of your mobile phone. Pointing the phone’s camera at various locations instantly overlays information about the respective location in the viewfinder. Real estate, banking and restaurant search companies have already embraced the future of mobile web by creating layers of information to be made available using the platform.

It essentially combines data from the phone’s GPS & Magnetometer (compass) to determine your location and orientation, and then overlays relevant information over a display captured via your mobile device’s camera.  It’s pretty impressive, and the company says that an iPhone version is underway (presumably for the iPhone 3GS).  However, currently it only works in the Netherlands.

See the demo video after the break.

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Hardware, Science augmented reality, g1, iphone, layar

Autodesk has hit a milestone of 1000 customers in the aerospace and defense industry thanks to the easy of Autodesk Inventor for prototyping and simulating designs in real-world scenarios.

Inventor software’s Digital Prototyping capabilities helped ADEPT produce accurate 3D models of the 320T before anything was actually built, reducing the number of physical prototypes that needed to be constructed. Processes that once took hours – such as changing the wall thickness of an engine component – were completed almost instantaneously with Autodesk Inventor software. As a result, engineers were able to spend less time constructing geometric models and more time creating innovative designs, and then simulating the performance of the designs under real-world conditions.

via Autodesk, Inc. :: Autodesk Hits Industry Milestone at Paris Air Show.

Science aerospace, autodesk, defense, inventor, modeling, simulation

AutoStitch, the technology licensed to ILM for panoramic production for film uses, is now available on the iPhone.  They’re calling it the ‘first automatic stitcher’ for the iPhone, which I doubt in the wake of tools like Mosaica, but it’s still pretty impressive.  Using the same technology used in Autopano and other tools, it’s now on the iPhone with impressive results.

AutoStitch now brings the latest in image recognition technology to your iPhone. Stitch images in any order or arrangement, using photos taken from your iPhones camera. Just select a set of images from the camera roll or photo albums, and AutoStitch does the rest.

It’s now available in the iPhone App Store for $1.99 .

AutoStitch iPhone.

Graphics, Hardware camera, ilm, iphone, panorama, photography

Cyviz is having the grand opening of its 4th Cyviz Technology Center in Washington, DC.  It’s a 7000 square foot space:

Let Cyviz, the premium collaborative display manufacturer, show you how to build the best walls in the world. We are opening up our 4th Cyviz Technology Center (CTC) at Two Potomac Yard in Crystal City, VA. The Cyviz CTC Washington, D.C. – a 7,000 square foot state-of-the-art collaboration facility – features five Cyviz solutions:  Clusterwall, Bizwall, Vizwall, Cyviz 4K and the new Cyviz C1.

If you’re in the area, definately check it out and let us know what you see!

via Landing page – Cyviz.

Hardware cyviz, display, powerwall

If the current state of the automotive industry leaves you scratching your head, you’re not alone.  TooManyCars has taken as much information as any person could singlehandedly managed and built a “family tree” attempting to view the relationships between every car manufacturer they could find.

Welcome to version 3.0 of the “Family Tree” style diagram of who owns who (or is it whom) in the automotive world. In this version of the “Family Tree”, I’ve added more categories: Heavy Trucks and Chinese made automobiles. The diagram now shows 130 different vehicle manufactures from US, Europe, India, Asia, Russia and China. I’ve read that there is more than 80 different vehicle manufactures in China. I made the decision not to list all of them, but the ones I included are among the top 40 manufactures in the world.

It’s a nightmarish interconnection showing how the various collaborations, ownerships, stock trades, and buyouts have interconnected the industry in a tangled spiderweb.

via Automotive Family Tree.

Graphics, Science automotive, economic, graph, infovis

At the recent Eurovis conference, Danny Holten and Prof. van Wijk presented a paper entitled “Force-Directed Edge Bundling for Graph Visualization”.  They merged the concept of edge bundling with force-directed network graphs, also known as node-link graphs, to show graphs with significantly less clutter and highlight high-level edge patterns.  The picture above models the edges as flexible springs attracted to each other.

Get the paper here.

Force-Directed Edge Bundling for Graph Visualization – information aesthetics.

Science eurovis, graph, paper

A new augmented reality game from the Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia Tech puts you in the shoes of a Helicopter Pilot over a zombie infested city.  You circle the Map of the city (which doubles as the AR marker) holding your phone as a portal into the AR world.  Zombies roam the streets below while you fly overhead tossing grenades (skittles, cute huh?) and shooting at them, all the while attempting to avoid errant zombie limbs thrown up at you.

Looks like alot of fun.. See a video after the break.

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Hardware, Science augmented reality, videogame, zombie

VisWeek’s InfoVis conference is attempting to start a new venue, the IEEE VisWeek Discovery Exhibition.  Aimed at sharing stories and examples of how visualization has impacted the life of people and researchers, they’ve setup a website to gather the stories.

We want to create a venue for everyone in the visualization community to share their stories of applied research results and to publish reports on the impact that our research can have on the work and life of people using our tools. Sharing these stories with the community will help us all improve our understanding of visualization tools in use. To encourage publishing reports about the application of information visualization tools to real word problems, we specifically allow the submission of previously published work that has been deployed, resulting in evidence of impact on its user community.

Definately looks like something to check out .

via IEEE Information Visualization – Discovery Exhibition – Home .

Science conference, ieee, infovis, visweek