Interactive Engine Exhibit

Dec 032010
 

Overview

GMG designed and developed multimedia content for inclusion in the exhibit for Orbital’s client. The multimedia includes engine animations, user interface design, and design and construction of a hardware rig for driving LEDs from the multimedia presentation. The system also includes design and implementation of a custom software layer to enable communication between the multimedia presentation and the hardware.

GMG specified the computer and touch screen components for Orbital to purchase. We also consulted to the requirements for the LEDs.

At the show, this exhibit was the only one to make use of interactive multimedia as a tool to get prospects with suppliers. The overwhelmingly positive response to this presentation is generating new business for the client as well as GMG!

Multimedia

This included processing the 3D engine models as supplied by Orbital, rigging the models for animation, creating the animations, and rendering to video. The touch screens have a user interface designed to access and coordinate the different pieces of video and other information. Programming included control routines to coordinate LED activity on the physical engine.

Hardware LED control rig

Programming of a custom hardware control layer and design and construction of a hardware interface module provides access to multimedia presentation so that it can drive LEDs included in the physical engine. This lets the multimedia highlight cut away areas of the engine and any other points of interest.

RSL Listening Post

Oct 012010
 

From the Archives with Naomi Jones (RSL Archivist)

The Archive Project has secured funding for a further three years with the generous support of Lotterywest. We will be visiting the Sub Branch and their collections with the aim of developing, at the end of the three years, an online exhibition focusing on the RSL in Western Australian communities.

The online exhibition will tell the story of the RSL in Western Australia since inception in 1916. The story of the RSL will be told through the Sub Branches both active and defunct. We are lucky to be working under the direction of a steering committee made up of representatives from the State Library, the National Trust, the Aviation Museum, Friends of the Battye, and the Royal WA Historical Society.

The Steering Committee will oversee the direction of the project making sure that we achieve desired outcomes. The exhibition itself will be developed by Glasson Murray Group (GMG) and facilitated by the use of audio visual equipment. In capturing the history of the RSL in Western Australia, we are looking for photographs of Sub Branch members, functions, events, buildings and memorials. We are also looking for documentation detailing the formation and operation of the Sub Branches. We will be conducting oral histories and interviews with Sub Branch members to capture the history of the organisation.

From The Listening Post October 2010.

Online Exhibition – RSL Centenary

Apr 152010
 

Outline

The site is a central point for the creation and management of online content for the RSL’s Centenary celebrations. The content is derived from the first phase of collection and branch visits.

Photos and links will be added as they become available.

Content management system (CMS)

This includes login management, media (pics, videos, histories) management and organisation, and general site organisation. The CMS forms the “back end” of the online exhibition and allows each branch to manage and coordinate their own content within the framework of the general exhibition site.

Web presentation of online exhibition

Data from the CMS is presented as an online exhibition site (similar to the “Land and People” exhibition) with all the audio, video, pictures, and text.

There is a general history that is common to all Branches of the RSL in Australia. This is presented as a foundation to the more personal and regional stories that relate to each separate RSL Branch.

The exhibition will be browsable by Branch and searchable by at least person, event, date, or media type.

All media will also be placed on a map of Australia (possibly of the world) so that the map can also be used as a method of locating media and stories. It can also be used to track the journey of collating the online exhibition by all involved – the story behind the story.

PSA 40th Floor Visitors Gallery

Mar 182010
 

PSA International, Singapore – 40th Floor Visitors Gallery

Summary

An interactive corporate communications tool for the world’s largest port operator. This presentation uses a blend of video, text and photos to convey the scope and quality of PSA’s operations around the globe. This is an updated version of the original presentation we developed for PSA back in 2005.

The exhibit is the feature of the visitor’s lounge on the 40th floor of the PSA building. It is a single large format touch screen and a large overhead projector. Tour staff use the multimedia tool to present to a wide range of visitors from international dignitaries to local school children.

The focus of the presentation has changed slightly since the original was created: there is no longer a need for the immersive 3d content and there is a need for greater control of the addition of new ports and editing the content of the presentation.

Media

This exhibit presents a range of media within a state of the art 3D environment. The media provided to GMG included

  • 360 degree x 180 degree panoramic photos
  • photo gallery of each of the 30 ports
  • port statistics
  • port maps
  • video of each port
  • model photos

All up, over 1.3 gigabytes of multimedia (once processed and compressed).

Technology

The presentation was built using the latest Adobe Flash development tools. The whole presentation is driven by a simple to edit XML file, allowing PSA staff to keep the presentation up to date.

Design

This installation contains three main elements: a fully rendered computer graphics 3d globe (featuring port holdings in several countries) the automatically adjusting label system (making sure that labels don’t overlay each other), and the dynamic window system (that can handle any number of images, movies, or interactive elements).

Included in the presentation is 30 minutes of video (port videos, corporate, historical and branding videos). The corporate video is available in all in 5 languages. Interactive diagrams explaining port operations and transshipment, and a quiz covering corporate and historical topics in Singapore ports.

 

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