Section: Software and Platforms

WILD Platform

Participants : Michel Beaudouin-Lafon [correspondant] , Olivier Chapuis, Stéphane Huot, Romain Primet, Amani Kooli, Monireh Sanaei, Gabriel Tezier, Jonathan Thorpe.

WILD (Wall-Size Interaction with Large Datasets) is InSitu's experimental ultra-high-resolution interactive platform for studying collaborative interaction and the visualization of very large datasets [2] (Figure 1 . It features a wall-sized display with thirty-two 30" LCD screens, i.e. a 5m50 x 1m80 (18' x 6') wall displaying 20 480 x 6 400 = 131 million pixels, powered by a 16-computer cluster and two front-end computer. The platform also features a camera-based motion tracking system supporting interaction with the wall as well as within the surrounding space, a multitouch table and various mobile devices. WILD provides a unique experimental environment for interactive visualization and is part of the DIGISCOPE Equipment of Excellence. In addition to using WILD for our research, we have also developed software architectures and toolkits that enable developers to run applications on such multi-device, cluster-based systems.

Figure 1. The WILD platform (clockwise): wall display, motion tracking system, display cluster, interactive table.