Location: Stewart Center B001

The Envision Center for Data Perceptualization is organized under the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and serves the computational visualization needs of the greater Purdue University community. The Center is a unique blend of computer science, engineering, perception, technology, and art that is used to process and display information through the use of computer graphics. The origins of ETB's collaboration with the Envision Center go back to Spring 2007 when Fabian Winkler, Laura Arns and David Braun collaborated on the ETB course Envison Art 01: the responsive screen which combined resources and technologies in the Envision Center with contemporary artistic research and practice. Student work resulted in the exhibition BE_TWEEN on April 20th, 2007. A group of students, the Envision Center Discoverers, offers free student workshops on the hard- and software technologies housed in the Center.

The Envision Center's facilities include among others:

• a Fakespace FLEX™ system featuring three ten-foot by eight-foot panels for rear projection of large-scale 3D images - these movable screens can be easily and rapidly rearranged to form a semi-enclosed room with three walls plus a fourth panel as the floor.
• an STT Motion Captor optical motion capture system that is operated in collaboration with the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. This system is composed of six infrared cameras on tripods and as many as three linked computers.
• Haptic interface devices including: PHANTOM Desktop™ Haptic Device, OMEGA Haptic Device, 6-DOF Delta Haptic Device, The Novint Falcon Haptic Device.
• An Access Grid™ interactive environment which allows participants from many geographically distant sites to communicate and collaborate with each other easily and inexpensively.

For more information and accessibility of facilities and equipment, please visit the Envision Center's website at: http://www.envision.purdue.edu/

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