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'6-D' pictures can look just like the real thing [Video]

web.mit.edu — By producing "6-D" images, an MIT professor and colleagues are creating unusually realistic pictures that not only have a full three-dimensional appearance, but also respond to their environment, producing natural shadows and highlights depending on the direction and intensity of the illumination around them.

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  • niradg, on 08/08/2008, -2/+66whoa. mind-bottling.
  • slothchunk, on 08/09/2008, -3/+64i'm fully convinced that MIT has a time machine and they are bringing back stuff from the future. They are always doing ridiculous stuff like this.
  • Tyorant, on 08/09/2008, -1/+44What happened to 5-D?
  • ramup, on 08/08/2008, -5/+38My brain is hurting,is this the 6th dimension?I thought there were 3 dimensions XYZ and a 4th one time.
  • kmotiv1, on 08/09/2008, -10/+36Very cool, but seriously.....not 6-D. They teach physics at MIT right?
  • JKAL, on 08/09/2008, -1/+265-D is sooo 2007
  • RiouG, on 08/09/2008, -1/+26It came, and went away just as quick.
  • Mejogid, on 08/09/2008, -0/+21FTA: "dimensions of change" - not of space-time. You can have dimensions of pretty much anything you want.
  • mingleTwat, on 08/09/2008, -6/+26X-D
  • AmyVernon, on 08/08/2008, -1/+19that's really wild. and I was afraid it'd be way over my head, but the video explained it really well.
  • yellowswan, on 08/09/2008, -2/+19What happened to 3=D~
  • CATSCEO2, on 08/09/2008, -5/+19Mind *****!

    (The woman's voice is annoying too.)
  • positron, on 08/09/2008, -0/+12Nobody's stopping you.
  • Wade, on 08/09/2008, -0/+12They skipped it.
  • Thoric, on 08/09/2008, -1/+12Just comment on the video. I hate when people post a time stamp and I'm forced to re-watch it just to realize the comment was stupid to begin with.
  • crownedgriffin, on 08/09/2008, -4/+14OMG. That woman's voice makes me want to punch myself in the head.
  • KingGorilla, on 08/09/2008, -1/+10penis.
  • seltaeb4, on 08/09/2008, -1/+10Hey, baby... meet me on the Holodeck. ;)
  • redwallhp, on 08/09/2008, -2/+10XBox? Dude, Microsoft's been bankrupt for decades. You don't have an Apple iGame?
  • dragon76, on 08/09/2008, -0/+7I don't have any cousins, you insensitive clod!
  • themastersb, on 08/09/2008, -0/+7"Yeah, mind-bottling. You know, when things are so crazy it gets your thoughts all trapped, like in a bottle?"
  • terminal157, on 08/08/2008, -0/+7I want one.
  • Satanael, on 08/09/2008, -1/+7They took a static image and made it react appropriately to real-life light sources... D: Imagine taking a photo of your cousin, shining a light on it and having it cast shadows on your cousin's face... would you not find that amazing?
  • DigTheDoug, on 08/09/2008, -0/+6Doom 3 would be playable!
  • inactive, on 08/09/2008, -1/+7I'll play, I love Boggle.
  • samnmax, on 08/09/2008, -0/+6The display is 6D. A normal light-field, which captures light going in all directions from any point in the scene, is 4D. This is a light field projector which adds the ability to also change the incident light, which adds another 2 dimensions.

    The page on this paper is here:
    http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/resources/prfdisplays/
  • fotbr, on 08/09/2008, -1/+7Its not a radiation symbol, its mickey mouse. I can tell from the ears and having seen a few mice in my time.....
  • opticwind, on 08/09/2008, -0/+5For the record, when it says 6-D, it is implying that pictures (traditionally 2- dimensional...length and width) have 4 other "aspect" dimensions. We are not talking physics, we are talking about the picture's properties. The "dimensions" are all explained in the video.
  • CKR600, on 08/09/2008, -0/+5I think they are counting the directions the light source can move to change the image.

    up, down, left, right, toward, away
  • winampman2, on 08/09/2008, -0/+5From the future.
  • flarn2006, on 08/09/2008, -0/+5What's that radiation symbol (☢) all about?
  • Anigma, on 08/09/2008, -0/+4Too bad that would destroy the level design and overall mood of the game. Can you imagine being able to turn on the lights and play Doom 3 or Bioshock with everything illuminated? Games have their own lighting systems for a reason.
  • 68024, on 08/09/2008, -2/+6Imagine having to use a real flashlight to illuminate things in the game you're playing on your computer... it would be amazing!
  • h3lx, on 08/09/2008, -2/+6Porn.
  • Nin10dude, on 08/09/2008, -0/+4So it'll be even more amazing when these things start giving you cousins.
  • dragon76, on 08/09/2008, -1/+5Did you READ the article? It's done with optics, that makes it cheaper.
  • dudefaceguyman, on 08/09/2008, -0/+3New high tech stained glass windows for churches? Funky screensavers?

    I'm sure we'll find some way to use it. If nothing else it could be like a lava lamp. Useless, but very cool to look at.

    Man I miss my lava lamp..
  • asurroca, on 08/09/2008, -1/+4That's what she said...
  • Handonam, on 08/09/2008, -0/+3yea, too bad he didn't get the joke.
  • inactive, on 08/10/2008, -0/+3It's in the same room as the four razor blades concept.
  • SilverBlade2k, on 08/09/2008, -1/+4Sweet...now we're seeing the first steps of what could be a Holodeck.

  • jake86, on 08/09/2008, -0/+3Yeah, I was waiting to see Tron 2 in 6-D!
  • rojoabraham, on 08/09/2008, -0/+31. width
    2. height
    3. depth
    4. time
    5. ???
    6. profit
  • shadyconcepts, on 08/09/2008, -0/+2"Because the system is being built by hand from custom-made parts, Raskar says, the present version costs about $30 per pixel to make."

    so unless this thing really takes off, i guess there's not gonna be "Transformers/Tron 2 in 6-D" anytime soon.
  • thavi, on 08/09/2008, -0/+2Holy crap. You could make some beautiful art with that technique
  • Ansem, on 08/09/2008, -1/+3Really cool.
  • WhiteRaven, on 08/10/2008, -0/+2Probably not as a consumer product since media content is always going to be something where the creators want to control those things, not leave them up to the whims of the end user's situation. Possibly "installed art" applications.

    It would have a place in simulations though.
  • LucasVB, on 08/09/2008, -0/+2They've "borrowed" it from a time traveller.
  • RiouG, on 08/09/2008, -3/+5OMG I KNEW IT! I always knew I had the power to force people do things with my mind!
  • stratius, on 08/09/2008, -2/+4Actually don't think of the dimensions as spatial or temporal. Think of them as inputs to the resultant image. A light field has 2D position (for the pixel) as one input and 2D position for the direction of the viewing angle (since a direction vector only needs 2 dimensions). That's just for a static image though. The other 2D comes from what I am assuming is the 2D direction of the light source.
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