Deep Vision Display Wall

Introduction

The Deep Vision Display Wall is the outcome of a project to build a large, high-resolution stereo display at a reasonable cost. It is a tiled, rear projected, passive stereo display system based on commodity components. Tiled displays offer a high degree of scalability and are affordable because they are built from commodity components. These systems comprise readily available workstations, projectors, and screens, along with special software to create a large, seamless display from multiple projectors.

The primary purpose of the Wall is to provide faculty, staff, and student researchers at Boston University a means to visualize large scientific data sets at very high resolution and using 3D stereopsis. Currently active projects include a Heart Defibrillation Analysis, a project in Space Weather Modeling and a Turbine Flow Simulation. It is also being used to present large scale 3D art projects in conjunction with Boston University's College of Fine Arts.

The Wall is part of SCV's Computing and Visualization Facilities at Boston University which includes IBM p690 and p655 supercomputers, a 52 node Linux compute cluster, and a 24 node Linux imaging cluster. This computational power can be used to drive the Wall's display by performing calculations on large data sets in real time and sending the resulting data to the Wall workstations for rendering and display.

The first public showing of the Deep Vision Display Wall was at the SC2001 Supercomputing conference in Denver, Colorado from November 10-16, 2001.

Technology Specifics
Describes the hardware and software used in our Display Wall and the issues involved with this technology.

Collaborators
The key people who helped to develop the Display Wall.

References
Papers and links on Display Walls.

Press
Recent news articles about the Wall.

This page written and maintained by Ray Gasser (rayg@bu.edu) and Aaron D. Fuegi (aarondf@bu.edu).