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ARCHITECTURE
By JUSTIN HOFFMAN
Professor
Stephen Travis Pope
and
Amichi Amar
MAT 201C
surroundings contradicted those
ABSTRACT of paintings, and lighting
conditions usually failed to match
"Nothing is more precious than as well. To achieve a perfect
the view of a landscape that is illusion, new techniques of
open on every side. " -Louis- painting were required, but above
Antoine de Bougainville (France, all a new environment in which
1972-1811) paintings could be displayed.
The painting had to surround
observers and envelop them
The intersection of mankind and completely, so as to exclude any
machine lies in the inherent glimpse of their whereabouts. An
nature of the display surface for entire pictorial environment was
televisions, computers, cell created for visitors to pass
phones, ect. This exponential through." [20]
relationship is feverishly pursued
with quantifiable results of New interests and activities from
connectivity, music, information, viewers have increased the
and visual display. With the demands on production and
reliance on surface display for construction of said
information expression, arrives a environments. Such demands
vanity where the user/consumer include a heightened stress on
has demanding desires: contrast the communities of hardware
ratio, luminance, gamut, speed, development, software
resolution, and size. [18] Surface development, and budgetary
display vanity stems from a constraints. This investigation
relationship for the pursues a catalog of popular
user/consumer to immerse within contemporary display
their information, interact with technologies in the form of
their information, or be their hardware, progressive additions
information. to the field of surface design, and
the relevance of the expressed
"The basic aim of a panorama technologies for contemporary
was to reproduce the real world panoramas.
so skillfully that spectators could
believe what they were seeing
was genuine. Although the
techniques of trompe l'oeil SOFTWARE
painting had been known for
centuries, they were never The progress for software
sufficient to create a total illusion presenting visuals has evolved
of reality. An observer's gaze beyond the pictorial illusion of
could always move beyond the painting panoramas, consumers
frame, where the actual desire the immersion into
panoramic environments. Vacuum Fluorescent Display. [17}
Audiences aim to augment their
reality, interact, and react for This analysis will focus on the
potentially greater understanding hardware technologies of Digital
of new, old, and artificial Projectors, Liquid Crystal
surroundings. Displays, LED displays, and
Pass-through display systems.
Audience interaction and The progressive desires stressed
participation is a key asset to the on surface display create a cadre
experience in the video game of production issues related to the
industry, a commercial physical structure such as image
entertainment juggernaut that quality, presentation flexibility,
currently eclipses the previous and cost. Based on data
centuries leader in entertainment gathered as of June 2009, the
revenues, the movie industry. following hardware technologies
Interactive technologies and represent the previous standards,
augmented reality have made current standards, and likely
tremendous strides in these successors in the area of
commercial gaming areas with panorama surface display.
interactive devices such as
Nintendo's Wii remote, Viacomʼs CATHODE RAY TUBE
Rock Band interactive musical DISPLAYS
controllers, and the current
release of the NATAL by The Cathode Ray Tube “has
Microsoft. evolved from the triode structure
of the Braun tube, which was the
first scanning version of the
HARDWARE device in the late 1890ʼs.” [18]
The Cathode Ray Tube, a light-
In the area of hardware emitting display, has been a
development within the last highly successful commercial
decade, technologists have product, and provided a low price
competed within the industry of point for designers of panoramas
surface display with the creation based on lowered cost attributed
of: Cathode Ray Tube, to mass production in the global
Cholesteric Liquid Crystal, Digital economy.
Light Processing,
Electroluminescent, Field Cathode Ray Tube Displays,
Emission Display, Laser TV, abbreviated CRT, “is a vacuum
Light-Emitting Diode, Liquid tube containing an electron gun
Crystal on Silicon, Organic Light- (a source of electrons) and a
Emitting Diode, Plasma Display fluorescent screen, with internal
Panel, Surface-Conduction or external means to accelerate
Electron-emitter Display, and and deflect the electron beam,
used to create images in the form German manufacturer Loewe
of light emitted from the ceased production of CRT
fluorescent screen. The image TVs.”[4] These trends lowered
may represent electrical manufacturer confidence and
waveforms (oscilloscope), increased enthusiasm for thinner
pictures (television, computer housing for the viewing device
monitor), radar targets and and flexibility desired in
others.” [4] residential and commercial
environments.
“The CRT is able to use relatively
simple architecture and control
electronics to display high-
performance video and data in a
low-cost and highly
manufacturable component.” [18]
Ironically the simple architecture
and voluminous size that made
the CRT an easily manufactured
and distributed product also
began to create industry
trepidation because the breadth
of distribution expenses accrued
from the magnitude of shipping
weight. [4]
[2]
OLED technology is
advantageous based on the
aspect that there is no backlight
needed for the image to function
and “simple printing process”.[16]
The lack of backlight creates
avenues where the product may
be flexible, transparent, and mold [21]
to desired parameters.
“You can never be too thin and you never
can be too light, and the technology that
we are looking at give you a very
lightweight display. A very bright display,
but also gives you a thin display that
should cost less to manufacture because
this technology is much less complicated
than existing LCD technology or plasma
technology.” [23]
[21]
While long developed as a
“LEP materials offer several key protypical display surface, the
advantages. LEP materials are OLED has been utilized in cell
themselves light-emitting and phones, PDAs and digital
thus do not require a costly cameras since 2004 from Kodak
backlight or suffer from LCD and Sony. In October 2007,
filter losses. This aspect alone Sony launched the XEL-1, an 11-
means they require less power, inch OLED Digital TV with an
are thin, light-weight and offer
contrast ratio of 100,000,000:1.
Amazon lists this product at a
price of $2,500 with a 36”
expected in 2011.[26]
[6]
Displays that have appropriated
immaterial properties have been The fog screen “harvests
documented and viewed since humidity in the air by condensing
the Ornamental Fountain of the it into water, which is then broken
19th Century. While performing into fog…The basic principle is
water displays are more recently the use of a large non-turbulent
recognized from Water Dome, airflow to protect a flow of, for
Aquatique Show, and Disney example dry fog particles inside it
Fantasmic. [6] from turbulence. The outer
airflow may get slightly turbulent,
but the inner fog layer remains
thin and crisp, enabling high-
quality projections and the walk-
through possibility. Ordinary tap
water is broken into fine fog
droplets and trapped inside this
non-turbulent airflow. Even
though the fog is made of water,
it appears dry to the touch, just
[6]
like air.” [6]
Fog Screen
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