Nsider
The nsider is an experimental multiperspective display. The nsider presents a
viewing space using four screens mounted as the front, sides, and top of a
box. Three dimensional models and abstract information spaces can be placed
inside the nsider, and then viewed across all screens. The nsider does not
attempt to create the illusion of a true three-dimensional solid, which
would be viewer dependent, but instead uses the physical orientation of the
screens to present multiple representations of the objects it contains.
These multiple representations may be based on multiple simultaneous
perspectives so that a dynamic model can be seen from many angles at once,
or it may be based on less physically direct ways of splitting the model
into multiple perspective renderings. Most interestingly, these techniques
can be combined to present orientation specific and semantically distinct
presentations to warp multiple dimensions across the four displays that the
nsider presents.
Simultaneous perspective of three-dimensional letterform
Movie of Nsider
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