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How I got into HiperSpace and how it looks there.

Update :

I got the pictures from San Diego and since their display is still a bit larger, I decided to update this article.

Hector send me a nice email. It turns out that the photographer had screwed up and forgot to notify Hector, so it wasn't his fault.

So here is how my San Francisco Panorama looks on the Hiperspace Display:

This is how I should display all my Panoramas.

Here is a nice perspective:

Since Hector extended an invitation for me to see this thing in action, I will take him up on it when I am in San Diego the next time around.

---------------------------Original Article Below (originally published on 2009/01/14) -------------------------------------------------

A couple of months ago Mark, a friendly bloke from the University of Melbourne, stumbled across my 222 Megapixel Image of Machu Picchu. Luckily Mark happened to be the IT Manager for one of the largest Displays available, the OzIPortal at the University in Melbourne and he also has an appreciation for the finer things in life such as art.

The OziPortal is one of the first in a generation of super displays used to visualize incredibly complex things such as the Universe itself (or what Hubble shows us of it), Telecommunications Network Graphs or your mucus’ molecular structure.

Thanks to Mark, the scientists have now gotten in touch with their artsy side and accidentally stumbled over the future of art itself.  Here is Mark going to town on my MP image:

My San Francisco Picture

We tried my Machu Picchu Picture and it looked great when I remembered that I had an 800 Megapixel Image of San Francisco somewhere in HardDriveSpace. I shot this picture from Twin Peaks:

Not too impressive until I mention that you can zoom onto peoples patios or see them walking on the streets after zooming in.  I thought it was even cooler and Mark thought so too.  I guess my internet provider must have thought I was doing something fishy and disconnected me on my first try to pump a few GB of picture data towards Melbourne, but on the second attempt we got through and here is how it looks.

This picture shows the entire image on the OziPortal:

This picture shows the operator (Mark is that you?) with the picture zoomed in somewhere on the bay:

Looks like someone is doing a sightseeing tour looking at St. Ignatius Church:

Or maybe just checking the competition (the Church lies on the grounds of the University of San Francisco). 

The funny thing is that I gave the San Diego guys (the owners of HiperSpace at the California Institue of Telco and IT) a copy of the picture too. I was hoping to get some images out of them, but they may be busy designing battlefield visualization or something on their panels instead of making art history.I finally got some pictures after all and changed this article. It turns out, Hector forgot to send the link to me or somebody forgot to notify him.

Thanks to Mark we were still able to get a peek at the future of art.

Now I am off hooking together displays for my next big exhibition.

Until I am back, you can read more about the Optiputer and about High Resolution Murals here:

Optiputer Website

My High Resolution Mural Page

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