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Kelly Heaton /
kelly@media.mit.edu
with
Steve Gray, Saul Griffith, Yael Maguire, Sarah Martinez and many others.
This project is funded in part by the MIT Council for the Arts and the MIT Media Laboratory.
Display viewed in cross-section (side view).
The dotted line indicates the inward curvature of the front panel (where the pixels are mounted). The distance from the innermost point of the curve and the edge of the display panel is 6 inches. The display is exhibited leaning against a plain white wall.
The
display structure is built from wood and finished to a smooth white
surface. Using a laser and CAD diagrams developed by Saul Griffith and
Sarah Martinez, plywood is cut to create a skeleton structure for the
concave surface. Thin sheets of bending plywood are then applied to
the skeleton to create the basic form of the display. The diagram on
the left was developed by Yael Maguire to generate the CAD files for
the ellipses in the concave skeleton. Thanks also to Ken Cook of the
MIT Hobby Shop for his help with the carpentry.