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Bingham Canyon Copper Mine, Utah by Bruce Oliver.

Digital Media Bursary - almost there!

It may be a kludge, but it's working! A lash-up of Director Lingo and ~800 lines of XML which somehow merges together into an interactive timelapse panorama installation...

All twenty panoramas are loading up, the viewer is panning towards the side of the camera view with more movement and it's fading from one panorama to the next depending on whether there is more movement in the top of bottom half of the camera view.

On the programming side the only bit left to do is make it go fullscreen and tweak the sensitivity/speed a bit. The full installation 'dry run' will be on Wednesday 28th November, with the final thing being shown during the Two Short Nights film festival on Thursday 6th & Friday 7th December at the Phoenix in Exeter.

Here's a sketch showing the relative positions of projector, video camera etc.:

The green area shows the projected image, we'll be mounting the projector as high up and close to the screen as possible to reduce people's shadows.
The red area represents the area that the motion capture camera will be looking at. So people close to the screen will be in the lower half of the video feed, moving the panorama forwards through time, while people in the back of the room will move it backwards through time. In theory.