Build a three-story aluminum sphere with a catwalk through the middle, slap on six hi-def 3D-capable projectors, and pipe in live video, renderings, and audio, and what do you get? If you’re at UC Santa Barbara, you’ve just built the AlloSphere.
Project director JoAnn Kuchera-Morin is as happy with the aesthetic results as she is with the science. Trained as a composer, she moved into digital geekery in the 1980s while working with computer-generated music. “We create some of the most exquisite artistic installations that are also some of the most precise scientific simulations in the world,” she says.
via Sensory Overloader: 3-D Tower Lets Researchers Climb Inside Their Data | Magazine.
