Screen Array - I think it's possible, I can't figure out how
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 21:28
Hello Everyone,
I'm getting into Resolume to try and make something I've had in my mind for a while.
I think Arena will allow me to do it, but I'd like to make sure before I take the financial plunge.
There's an image below which will give you an idea of what I'm going to try and do.
My guess is, the people who built the setup in the image below are pros, with tons of great gear / splitters / stuff I don't understand.
I have a 15" Full-Spec Retina Macbook and an HD projector, nothing else, so I got to thinking about building a stack of TVs and monitors, and painting out each screen, and then mapping Resolume's output onto these screens using slices.
So far, I think it should be ok. I'm a bit stuck on what to do next though...
What I like about the reference image is that some screens are showing unique content, while others are forming an composite array, showing parts of a larger image (the composite flag, on left)
My question is, once each slice of the output is nicely warped onto each screen, how will I be able to switch from showing parts of a large sliced up image to showing the same image on each screen, or random colours flickering on each screen, for instance. I'm very comfortable in AfterEffects, but I'm hoping there's a way to do it in a more 'live' way. Maybe nothing like this exists.
Then, (and I'm sorry this is possibly in the wrong department) would a 2.8ghx i7 Retina MBP w/ 16gb RAM be able to handle this amount of warping, AND is there any sort of hardware peripheral which can aid the laptop by handling graphics processing?
If you have answers to anything above, I'd be very grateful.
Chris
I'm getting into Resolume to try and make something I've had in my mind for a while.
I think Arena will allow me to do it, but I'd like to make sure before I take the financial plunge.
There's an image below which will give you an idea of what I'm going to try and do.
My guess is, the people who built the setup in the image below are pros, with tons of great gear / splitters / stuff I don't understand.
I have a 15" Full-Spec Retina Macbook and an HD projector, nothing else, so I got to thinking about building a stack of TVs and monitors, and painting out each screen, and then mapping Resolume's output onto these screens using slices.
So far, I think it should be ok. I'm a bit stuck on what to do next though...
What I like about the reference image is that some screens are showing unique content, while others are forming an composite array, showing parts of a larger image (the composite flag, on left)
My question is, once each slice of the output is nicely warped onto each screen, how will I be able to switch from showing parts of a large sliced up image to showing the same image on each screen, or random colours flickering on each screen, for instance. I'm very comfortable in AfterEffects, but I'm hoping there's a way to do it in a more 'live' way. Maybe nothing like this exists.
Then, (and I'm sorry this is possibly in the wrong department) would a 2.8ghx i7 Retina MBP w/ 16gb RAM be able to handle this amount of warping, AND is there any sort of hardware peripheral which can aid the laptop by handling graphics processing?
If you have answers to anything above, I'd be very grateful.
Chris