{"id":1462,"date":"2016-01-21T12:46:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T17:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2016-01-21T12:46:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T17:46:13","slug":"playing-with-the-new-visualization-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/playing-with-the-new-visualization-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with the new visualization wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we went downstairs to the main floor of Redpath Library<\/a> to play with the new visualization wall<\/a>\u00a0which is\u00a0made up of eight 55-inch screens in the Research Commons<\/a>. The first thing we wanted to see was how some of our digitized images looked up on the big wall. First we pulled up an a\u00a0miniature (~ 2″ x 3″) from one of our Book of Hours (MS 102) we recently digitize to support a collaborative\u00a0research project<\/a> in medieval manuscripts housed in\u00a0Rare Books and Special Collections<\/a>. Even blown up so that one square centimetre covered four of the screens the image was crystal clear.<\/p>\n

\"MS<\/a>

MS 102, a Book of Hours miniature on one half of the data visualization wall. [Left] Full size [Right] Close up<\/p><\/div>Next we pulled up the high resolution image\u00a0of Lincoln’s\u00a0original draft order for troops <\/a>signed\u00a0in 1863 to see details in the ink from\u00a0Abraham Lincoln’s signature. The level of detail that can be pulled up on these images is exciting! We can’t wait to invite the research teams down to see what can be seen with these screens.\"IMG_7463\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Our final experiment was\u00a0yesterday\u00a0when we hosted a graduate level multimedia class from the School of Information Studies<\/a>. Here we wanted to take advantage of the large screen size and used half the screen for a presentation\u00a0while on the other we used remote desktop to a computer in our lab and did a live demo colour correcting an image.<\/p>\n

\"Greg<\/a>

Greg Houston doing a live colour balancing demonstration on digitized images.<\/p><\/div>\n

To learn more about the research commons you can email research.commons@mcgill.ca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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