CANVAS SPECIFICATIONS

[Above drawing by Lance Chong, Beckman Institute. Click to view larger image.]

TECHNICAL SPECS

Canvas, the Collaborative Advanced Navigation Virtual Art Studio is a scalable, reconfigurable display technology for modern art museums... an environment to facilitate the creation and display of narrative art works. [CANVAS - A Virtual Reality Environment for Museums, H. Kaczmarski, K. Harleman.]

Right now, CANVAS is set up in the basement of Krannert Art Museum, on Peabody Ave in Champaign, and is accessible during regular museum hours. For a guided demo or information on running projects in CANVAS please email Rose Marshack at rose2000 at uiuc.edu.

CANVAS is currently one large back-projectioned screen bent into 3 walls, with angle between left and center of 115.3 degrees and center and right of 113.9 degrees. Operating system is syzygy, which is a free download from http://www.isl.uiuc.edu and can run on Linux, Mac, or Windows platforms.