Enhanced Visualization: Making Space for 3-D Images [Hardcover]

Barry G. Blundell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 26, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0471786292 | ISBN-13: 978-0471786290 | Edition: 1

This book builds on a previous work (‘Creative 3-D Display and Interaction Interfaces’) but may be read as a stand-alone book. A trans-disciplinary approach is adopted thereby making the content accessible to wide-ranging audiences from both the sciences and humanities. Additionally, the book is highly relevant to computer users who would like to learn more about new approaches to computer interaction, to those wishing to develop new forms of creative digital media and to those within industry who are involved in the advancement of computers and computer related products.

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"…the book will give you both the scientific and factual basis to express the outcome of the visualisation process in the most effective way." (British Computer Society Book Reviews)

"…a wonderful introduction to multidimensional display systems for people new to the field, and can also serve as a great reference for practitioners." (Computing Reviews.com, September 13, 2007)

From the Back Cover

A comprehensive guide to the technologies and techniques used to enable computer-processed images to occupy a 3-D space

This authoritative book focuses on the technologies and techniques that may be used to enable computer-processed images to occupy a three-dimensional (3-D) space. Images depicted in this way take on many of the attributes that we associate with the traditional sculptured image and naturally satisfy a range of pictorial, oculomotor, and binocular depth cues, thereby avoiding depth cue conflict and viewing discomfort. In addition, this opens up exciting opportunities that exist for the development of new interaction tools and techniques.

Enhanced Visualization provides a refreshing and wide-ranging insight into approaches for radically advancing our communication with the digital world.

Content includes:

• Discussion of a broad range of creative 3-D display system techniques
• An extensive background review of volumetric systems
• A chapter devoted to research undertaken in connection with varifocal systems
• Identification of various types of image space
• Consideration of interaction opportunities offered by different forms of image space
• The impact of different display modalities upon graphics engine hardware and software
• Suggestions for technologies and techniques that warrant significant research efforts
• A comprehensive range of references

A transdisciplinary approach makes the content accessible to a wide-ranging audience. This book will be of great value to undergraduate and graduate students, to researchers involved in advancing interaction with the digital world, and also to those involved in investing in new forms of computer interaction technologies.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 425 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 1 edition (February 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471786292
• ISBN-13: 978-0471786290
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,498,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars technology still needs more work, September 14, 2007

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This review is from: Enhanced Visualization: Making Space for 3-D Images (Hardcover)

How close are we to practical systems for effective 3d visualisation? Blundell provides both a good historical survey of earlier attempts, and a synopsis of current work. The earlier methods do seem primitive.

Naturally, the bulk of the text focuses on what is currently attempted. A wide range of hardware ideas. Like a swept volume. Akin perhaps to rasterising on a traditional TV screen. But now the intent is to generate voxels instead of pixels. There are drawbacks, like a visual dead zone.

Another method uses a static volume. Where light emitters are embedded in this volume. And excited to generate a "true" 3d image. One problem is the sheer mass of computational support, if one wants a 3d time varying display. This bandwidth bedevils most implementations. And static volumes also come with dead zones.

Yet another approach uses a planar screen with fixed beams. But this gives rise to various distortions.

Overall, a good description of how things stand. The technology still needs improvement.