Cinema-Television Research Professor Streams Live Digital Animation

Research Associate Professor Richard Weinberg's digital animation project was streamed live from Tokyo, Japan, to the opening session of the iGrid 2005 conference at the University of California, San Diego. The project, "24 Flowers per Second" was shot on an 8-megapixel digital still camera (Canon EOS20D), streamed live from Japan, and projected at the conference on Sony's new 4k digital cinema projector. This was part of a demonstration of international real-time streaming of 4K digital cinema. At four times the resolution of today's HD, and a wider color space, the newly proposed "4k" standard defines a digital projection system that could eventually replace 35mm film projection for theatrical distribution.  Weinberg's project was also featured at the dedication of the new Calit2 building at USCD at the end of October, and is frequently screened at Keio University's Digital Media Center.  Richard also took part in an international multi-party HD teleconferencing demonstration organized by the Research Channel at the University of Washington as part of the SuperComputing 2005 conference in Seattle.