relief mapping Archives - Digital Urban https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/category/relief-mapping/ Data, Cities, IoT, Writing, Music and Making Things Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:16:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.digitalurban.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Dulogosm-1.png relief mapping Archives - Digital Urban https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/category/relief-mapping/ 32 32 Relief: Physical 3D Interactive Maps: A Step Towards the X-Men GI https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2010/02/19/relief-physical-3d-interactive-maps/ https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2010/02/19/relief-physical-3d-interactive-maps/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:16:00 +0000 http://digitalurban.net/?p=1086 Relief is an actuated tabletop display, which is able to render and animate three-dimensional shapes with a malleable surface. It allows users to experience and form digital models like geographical...

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]]> Relief is an actuated tabletop display, which is able to render and animate three-dimensional shapes with a malleable surface. It allows users to experience and form digital models like geographical terrain in an intuitive manner.

The tabletop surface is actuated by an array of 120 motorized pins, which are controlled with a platform built upon open-source hardware and software tools. Each pin can be addressed individually and senses user input like pulling and pushing as the clip below illustrates:

TEI 2010 / Relief: a responsive 3D surface from benny on Vimeo.

The system is termed a “scalable actuated shape display”, created by Daniel Leithinger, Adam Kumpf, and Hiroshi Ishii of MIT’s Tangible Media Group. In the chat about this around the office it was suggested was that it reminds us of the maps used in the X-Men films, now that would be a neat way to display data.

Picked up via Make.

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