Imaging @ ImagineRIT 2011

Amateur 3-D Scanning
Gordon Field House

This exhibit will demonstrate three dimensional scanning using a structured light system. Visitors will have a chance to get their face scanned and placed into a three dimensional animation that will be sent to them by email.

Creating Interactive Digital Images: "The Dome"
Gordon Field House

Experience digital imagery like you've never experienced it before!  The multidisciplinary Freshman Imaging Project Design Team will demonstrate the operation of their "PTM Dome" - a high-tech device which creates a new and unique class of interactive digital images which allow the viewer to examine objects in ways that are impossible with conventional images.

Explore the planets in 3D
Gordon Field House

Explore the surfaces of different planets in the solar system in 3D ... right beneath your feet! In this exhibit you will have the chance to roam around different planets in the solar system, and get a free pair of 3D glasses so that you can almost imagine that you are flying above the planets surface just below you.

EyePad 2.0
Gordon Field House

Interacting with a computer using mouse input has been practiced for many decades. Technological advancement has led to new modes of interaction, such as touchpad, joysticks and voice-driven systems. The latest trend is the usage of eye gaze for interaction with the system. Visitors will learn about the latest developments in this area.

Light detection and ranging-3D scans of the world
Gordon Field House

This exhibit includes an eye-safe ground-based laser system that can scan its environment in 3D at very high density (2mm spot spacing). A visitor will be be exposed to 3D remote sensing and allowed to operate the 3D laser scanner, with that person being the "target". The scanner will generate a detailed virtual 3D point cloud of the person, which the user can then manipulate and interact with.

Realtime Airborne Imagery of Campus
Gordon Field House

An aircraft flying over campus will relay images live to this exhibit, demonstrating how imaging technology can be used for emergency response. The high resolution imagery will be provided by sensors developed by the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing lab in RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. These sensors were used to collect imagery in support of relief efforts in Haiti last year.

TangiPaint: A Tangible Digital Art System
Gordon Field House

TangiPaint is a digital painting and engraving application that provides the experience of working with real materials such as oil paint or copper sheeting. Using fingers on the touchscreen of an iPad or iPhone, users can lay down strokes of thick, three-dimensional paint on a simulated canvas, or cut 3D grooves in a substrate. Then using the Tangible Display technology introduced at Imagine RIT last year, users can tilt and reorient the display screen to see the gloss and relief or "impasto" of the simulated surface, and modify it until they get the appearance they desire. TangiPaint represents a first step toward developing interactive digital art media that look and behave like real materials.

Science Behind The Hubble Space Telescope
Outside - Mobius Quad

The exhibit will teach people how HST collects light from distant objects, photographs them using CCD cameras, and how astronomers use these data to do science and create beautiful pictures. At the exhibit, visitors can view HST images, learn how they are obtained, and do some observing of their own using a 12in Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope.

Digital Solar Explorer
Gosnell Hall (Bldg 08) - Lobby

Explore the star at the center of our Solar System that makes life as we know it possible. View the Sun in ways that only modern technology make possible. You are put in control of the Sun with our motion control technology and spherical projection system. Observe the life cycle of the Sun, as well as its current activity. See what you take for granted every day in a whole new light.

Multiwavelength Astronomy Research
Gosnell Hall (Bldg 08) - First Floor

Visitors will learn about Astronomy research topics being studied by RIT students and see how we gain information from distant objects using the entire spectrum of light. Using Instruments that can "see" what our eyes aren't capable of seeing helps Astronomers unveil hidden features of galaxies, planets, stars and nebulae. At this exhibit visitors can control an interactive display that shows a mulitwavelength view of the universe.

Immersive Discovery
Gosnell Hall (Bldg 8) - Atrium

The purpose of the Digital Immersive Cube, a.k.a The Scube is to immerse its viewers in a truly unique learning experience. Participants enter the cube 10 people at a time and are exposed to cool and informative information about evolution, global warming, the galaxy, invasive species, and even some of the world's most important inventions.

Family Science fun... with rockets!
Outside - Field North of N Lot

Come visit our activity and have a blast with your family! Work together as a family to design a rocket out of recyclable materials and basic supplies from around the house and then watch it soar through the sky. Once you are done, try again, doing something different to see just how far you can go!

Pen and Finger-Based Entry of Math Notation
Golisano Hall (Bldg 70) - Atrium

We present a system that recognizes math entered using a finger or stylus ('pen') on a tablet computer (iPad). The algorithms and interface used in this system have been developed and refined by faculty and students in the Golisano College.