February 2nd, 2006
Circus of Now
On Monday, a few of us at idmi met with Aleksei and Christian from the Circus of Now, a spectacular multimedia theatrical production company. They’ve developed a system called Dylos (written in C++ and using DirectPlay messaging) that does high resolution, 3D, multiple projector (6) spanning for live visual performances. The system runs on 3 heavy-duty Windows machines with dual-head video cards. CON has extremely high standards for their production values — the work they showed us from their demo reel just glowed. They’ve used high budget gigs for corporate clients to push the limits of multimedia theater and live visuals — more power to them. Thanks to Luciana for inviting them in to speak with us.
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February 4th, 2006 at 6:06 pm
Well, it should be noted that they havent used thier Dylos system on anything more than 1 output system for full gigs. The stuff they showed us was all genlocked/RS-422 controlled DVD playback. Not to knock it, I was quite impressed – they certainly know how to put on a show.
Christian is super talented. I was really impressed with his work. Im kind of sad that he chose Direct -X rather than GL to implement his graphics pipeline, because that means there is really no chance of porting at all.