Projects_2017

360°

Reality to Virtuality

GROUP 1

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DISTORTED REALITY

Tanguy Caversaccio, Lars Kaiser, Cyriac Levet

A scan is an objective way to display and analyze reality. Due to very precise measurements we have a very clear representation of topography, space and texture. But what if we use the scanner not as a passive instrument, but as an active tool that creates an entire new world from the reality? How can we go beyond the technical limits of the scan? How does the machine react to different materials? A detailed description of our project and progress is given on our blog and here we show the point clouds and pictures of our results.

Behind Pillar

This experiment was done to see how laser rays can be deflected by mirrors to measure things they usually couldn’t. In this case, four mirrors were used to scan behind a pillar. Notice that any mirrors not exactly vertical lead angular displacements in the final viewpoint.

Big Room

This point cloud was scanned in the mirror maze in Luzern. It consists of three individual scans that ReCap was surprisingly able to register automatically, despite the many reflections.

Palms

A result from a our big room scan at Gletschergarten Luzern. The interesting part about this experiment is that the palms do not exist in reality, but were generated by reflections. Only the sides pointing outwards existed, while there were mirrors between the palms. These do not appear in virtuality and yet the transition seems seamless.