Project Number

322

Title

Regeneration of Real Objects in the Real World

Description

Interactive image-based archive and display system for real world objects.

Contact

Hiroto Matsuoka

Affiliation

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Address

3-1, Morinosato Wakamiya 
Atsugi-shi Kanagawa, 243-0198 Japan

E-mail

hmatsu@aecl.ntt.co.jp

WWW

Year

2002

Reference

SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications

Project Details

"The vision of this work is to regenerate real objects that existed at some moment in the past and/or at some remote location as if they have been transferred to the present across space and time. The objects could be museum pieces or items in stores, for example. For this work, we have developed a quick and fully automated system that can capture a three-dimensional image of real objects. This success brought us close to our goal of 'regeneration of real objects in the real world.'" 
 
"The system consists of functions for capturing, registration and sensing, and regeneration." The custom 3D capture system is able to capture complicated objects with great subtlety (i.e., plastic and porcelain items with strong inter-reflection, translucency, etc.). Regeneration requires additional information gathered from "sensor cubes" that measure light and geometry. 
 
The demonstration features "Noh" masks from traditional Japanese drama. Images were gathered from various angles and lighting conditions during the carving process. Captured imagery will be regenerated in real time anywhere the sensor cube is located as naturally as possible by sensing the light in the environment. "In the exhibition, the carving process unfolds as distances between the audience and the cube changes - a completed mask gradually reverts to a chunk of wood as the distance increases and vice versa."

Sight

graphics workstation, automated 3D capture system, sensor cubes, panel display

Sound

Touch

Smell

Taste

Other

Emergence

1 - Innovation, Custom, Research

Intent

1 - Technology (innovation, machine)

Primary

102 - display (immer,aug,ster)

Secondary

105 - emerging technology

Remarks

 

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