New portable FELIX 3D display

Knut Langhans; Daniel Bezecny; Dennis Homann; Detlef Bahr; Carsten Vogt; Christian Blohm; Karl-Heinz Scharschmidt

doi:10.1117/12.305525

17 April 1998 New portable FELIX 3D display

Knut Langhans, Daniel Bezecny, Dennis Homann, Detlef Bahr, Carsten Vogt, Christian Blohm, Karl-Heinz Scharschmidt

Proceedings Volume 3296, Projection Displays IV; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.305525
Event: Photonics West '98 Electronic Imaging, 1998, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

An improved generation of our 'FELIX 3D Display' is presented. This system is compact, light, modular and easy to transport. The created volumetric images consist of many voxels, which are generated in a half-sphere display volume. In that way a spatial object can be displayed occupying a physical space with height, width and depth. The new FELIX generation uses a screen rotating with 20 revolutions per second. This target screen is mounted by an easy to change mechanism making it possible to use appropriate screens for the specific purpose of the display. An acousto-optic deflection unit with an integrated small diode pumped laser draws the images on the spinning screen. Images can consist of up to 10,000 voxels at a refresh rate of 20 Hz. Currently two different hardware systems are investigated. The first one is based on a standard PCMCIA digital/analog converter card as an interface and is controlled by a notebook. The developed software is provided with a graphical user interface enabling several animation features. The second, new prototype is designed to display images created by standard CAD applications. It includes the development of a new high speed hardware interface suitable for state-of-the- art fast and high resolution scanning devices, which require high data rates. A true 3D volume display as described will complement the broad range of 3D visualization tools, such as volume rendering packages, stereoscopic and virtual reality techniques, which have become widely available in recent years. Potential applications for the FELIX 3D display include imaging in the field so fair traffic control, medical imaging, computer aided design, science as well as entertainment.

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Knut Langhans, Daniel Bezecny, Dennis Homann, Detlef Bahr, Carsten Vogt, Christian Blohm, and Karl-Heinz Scharschmidt "New portable FELIX 3D display", Proc. SPIE 3296, Projection Displays IV, (17 April 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.305525

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