When I got out of improv class on Wednesday morning, I took the elevator up to the third floor, where our project room is. Before I made it, I was stopped in the hallway by Frank, who said to me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“They did it! Do you want to see?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, if you remember from last week, our first major challenge was to make our multi-perspective rendering technique work in the first place, so that we could begin to test it. Henry and Jason were put on that task, and based during the last progress update there were still a lot of unknowns about how to do it. The first thing they were going to try was the version that already existed in the CAVERN: A single headtracked player, circling around an object projected into its center. Based on the number of unknowns about the multi-perspective version, I had been mentally budgeting our time this semester to spend about 5 weeks simply getting everything set up. So when Frank asked me if I wanted to see what Henry and Jason had been doing, I assumed that they had got the CAVERN set up, and the single perspective version working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But as you may be able to guess by this point, they had made the multi-perspective version work! So, that puts us much<\/em> further ahead of schedule! Which I shouldn’t need to tell you is fantastic. The other good thing about this is that Quarters is next week. So now we don’t have to just explain<\/em> what we are doing, we can show<\/em> it. Which I usually prefer whenever we can manage it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s go over how it works!<\/p>\n\n\n\n As I wrote last week, the CAVERN uses stereoscopic 3D projection with shutter glasses to project a different image to the left and right eye. This creates a 3D effect that can make objects appear as if they are deeper into the screen, or projected out into the circular inner space. The unfortunate side effect of this is that images taken of the CAVERN, without these special glasses, not only lack the 3D effect, but appear doubled. So for most of these examples, you’re going to have to use your imagination, or come by and try it out for yourself!<\/p>\n\n\n\nSplitting the Apple<\/h4>\n\n\n\n