Panorama Architecture
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PANORAMA ARCHITECTURE By JUSTIN HOFFMAN Professor Stephen Travis Pope and Amichi Amar MAT 201C surroundings contradicted those ABSTRACT of paintings, and lighting conditions usually failed to match "Nothing is more precious than as well. To achieve a perfect the view of a landscape that is illusion, new techniques of open on every side. " -Louis- painting were required, but above Antoine de Bougainville (France, all a new environment in which 1972-1811) paintings could be displayed. The painting had to surround observers and envelop them The intersection of mankind and completely, so as to exclude any machine lies in the inherent glimpse of their whereabouts. An nature of the display surface for entire pictorial environment was televisions, computers, cell created for visitors to pass phones, ect. This exponential through." [20] relationship is feverishly pursued with quantifiable results of New interests and activities from connectivity, music, information, viewers have increased the and visual display. With the demands on production and reliance on surface display for construction of said information expression, arrives a environments. Such demands vanity where the user/consumer include a heightened stress on has demanding desires: contrast the communities of hardware ratio, luminance, gamut, speed, development, software resolution, and size. [18] Surface development, and budgetary display vanity stems from a constraints. This investigation relationship for the pursues a catalog of popular user/consumer to immerse within contemporary display their information, interact with technologies in the form of their information, or be their hardware, progressive additions information. to the field of surface design, and the relevance of the expressed "The basic aim of a panorama technologies for contemporary was to reproduce the real world panoramas. so skillfully that spectators could believe what they were seeing was genuine. Although the techniques of trompe l'oeil SOFTWARE painting had been known for centuries, they were never The progress for software sufficient to create a total illusion presenting visuals has evolved of reality. An observer's gaze beyond the pictorial illusion of could always move beyond the painting panoramas, consumers frame, where the actual desire the immersion into panoramic environments. Vacuum Fluorescent Display. [17} Audiences aim to augment their reality, interact, and react for This analysis will focus on the potentially greater understanding hardware technologies of Digital of new, old, and artificial Projectors, Liquid Crystal surroundings. Displays, LED displays, and Pass-through display systems. Audience interaction and The progressive desires stressed participation is a key asset to the on surface display create a cadre experience in the video game of production issues related to the industry, a commercial physical structure such as image entertainment juggernaut that quality, presentation flexibility, currently eclipses the previous and cost. Based on data centuries leader in entertainment gathered as of June 2009, the revenues, the movie industry. following hardware technologies Interactive technologies and represent the previous standards, augmented reality have made current standards, and likely tremendous strides in these successors in the area of commercial gaming areas with panorama surface display. interactive devices such as Nintendo's Wii remote, Viacomʼs CATHODE RAY TUBE Rock Band interactive musical DISPLAYS controllers, and the current release of the NATAL by The Cathode Ray Tube “has Microsoft. evolved from the triode structure of the Braun tube, which was the first scanning version of the HARDWARE device in the late 1890ʼs.” [18] The Cathode Ray Tube, a light- In the area of hardware emitting display, has been a development within the last highly successful commercial decade, technologists have product, and provided a low price competed within the industry of point for designers of panoramas surface display with the creation based on lowered cost attributed of: Cathode Ray Tube, to mass production in the global Cholesteric Liquid Crystal, Digital economy. Light Processing, Electroluminescent, Field Cathode Ray Tube Displays, Emission Display, Laser TV, abbreviated CRT, “is a vacuum Light-Emitting Diode, Liquid tube containing an electron gun Crystal on Silicon, Organic Light- (a source of electrons) and a Emitting Diode, Plasma Display fluorescent screen, with internal Panel, Surface-Conduction or external means to accelerate Electron-emitter Display, and and deflect the electron beam, used to create images in the form German manufacturer Loewe of light emitted from the ceased production of CRT fluorescent screen. The image TVs.”[4] These trends lowered may represent electrical manufacturer confidence and waveforms (oscilloscope), increased enthusiasm for thinner pictures (television, computer housing for the viewing device monitor), radar targets and and flexibility desired in others.” [4] residential and commercial environments. “The CRT is able to use relatively simple architecture and control electronics to display high- performance video and data in a low-cost and highly manufacturable component.” [18] Ironically the simple architecture and voluminous size that made the CRT an easily manufactured and distributed product also began to create industry trepidation because the breadth of distribution expenses accrued from the magnitude of shipping weight. [4] Cathode Ray Tube Displays lack flexibility because a rigid screen LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS of and housing volume needed to LCDs host the vacuum tube. “Various attempts to squeeze the Liquid Crystal Displays or LCDs traditional 3-D CRT into two are pervasive amongst computer dimensions or at least reduce the monitors and thread through a depth substantially have been vast array of digital devices in the unsuccessful to date.” [18] home and office. James Fergason and the International This inflexibility based on mere Liquid Crystal Company physical stature has led to the produced a LCD watch, igniting a decrease of demand for burgeoning race of manufacturers commercial innovation and with intense focus to overcome corporate backing with Cathode the obstacle of contrast to Ray Tube Displays. “In 2005 addressable rows. [2] Sony announced that they would stop the production of CRT The architecture of an LCD computer displays. Similiarly, display incorporates a liquid crystal solution between two The regional light source (108) sheets of polarizing material. includes a substrate (100) and a Electricity excites the solution and light-emitting structure (101). The herds the crystals to form substrate 100 includes a patterns. Each crystals opaque transparent material such as or transparent consistency form glass, while the light-emitting displayed numbers and text. [2] structure 101 includes an organic light emitting diode, for example. “The liquid crystal display panel has a plurality of pixels, and each The light-emitting structure 101 is of the pixels has a plurality of disposed on one side of the corresponding color blocks. The substrate 100 to face the liquid regional light source is directly crystal display panel 110. The incident on the liquid crystal light-emitting structure101is display panel, such that the light disposed on one side of the generated thereby is impinging substrate 100 to face the liquid on a reflection layer of the liquid crystal display panel 110. crystal display panel to cause reflection. The allocation of the The light-emitting structure 101 regional light source includes includes a cathode 102, a scattered dots distributed over luminescent layer 104 and an the color blocks corresponding to anode 106. The luminescent the liquid crystal display panel. layer 104 is sandwiched between Alternately, the regional light the cathode 102 and the anode source is allocated at an edge of 106. The material for forming the each of the color blocks, or with cathode 102 includes metal with an arrangement allowing the light good conductivity such as silver to be incident uniformly.” [22] and aluminum. The luminescent layer 104 is made of luminescent organic material. The anode includes a transparent conductive material such as indium oxide (ITO).” [22] [2] As seen in this image “ In this embodiment, the regional light source 108 is located on the [19] liquid crystal display panel (110) to directly radiate a light thereon. Liquid Crystal Display researchers overcame the limitations of operating life, contrast ratio, high power consumption and viewing angle limitations. With these progresses, the LCD replaced CRTs as the popular surface solution for electronic instruments. “However, despite its impressive performance, the conventional color transmissive LCD architecture employs a convoluted electro optical This gas-discharge display path…This complexity has demonstrates an image when a stimulated the search for a more sealed glass envelope is placed intuitively simple approach to in contact to a high-voltage making flat panel displays.”[18] electric field that creates the ionization of the gas, better known as plasma. The glass is a PLASMA DISPLAY hermetically sealed envelope with TECHNOLOGY or PDPs an inert gas mixture: helium, neon, argon, and xenon.[18] “In 1964, researchers at the University of Illinois developed the first ac-driven memory display that they called the ʻplasma display panelʼ. As an emissive display technology, PDPs possess many of the advantages of the CRT, such as wide viewing angle and excellent