Jonathan, your project is *way* more ambitious. I look forward to seeing it completed.
We should trade RED footage. I emailed you a few months back. Email me sometime.
Yep, it's bad. Especially the red leather couches and fake tree covering the AC unit in the corner. But the windows are plumb, sir! The camera lens just distorts things.:)
The mailto address will get obfuscated after the 24 hour Slashdot effect has passed. For now I'm being nice and letting people email me without the trouble.
Heh, I'm not worried about the wires. I'm more concerned with the fact that there are now nice holes in the walls to feed oxygen to any fire that might start above my FIREPLACE.
The vWindow was originally planned to be 4x3 panels (12 panels total) and in our previous house on a wall that didn't have a fireplace.
The fireplace cuts down on the vertical space available and a 4x3 window would not fit. So since a viewer could imagine a metal conduit chimney suspended between the windows, I elected to go that route since the wall was otherwise ideal.
I do agree that the fireplace is very unfortunate, but I won't be remodeling that wall for quite some time, so it'll just have to do for now. (The tree also hides a hideous AC unit)
Actually they look better in real life. It's very difficult to take a picture of even a real window while also exposing the room details. Most professional jobs fake it and paste in a window scene with an appropriately bright image.
Since the windows are on the far wall and can be seen from the family room, kitchen, living room, and dining room, there is minimal parallax effect lost. You effectively don't walk "past" the displays, but you can walk closer or farther away.
Static images do have their cheese factor, so you have to select them carefully. A beach shot, for example is going to look fake since the ocean isn't animated.
Too true. The cityscape was built for the house we were in 2 years ago. Sadly, we don't have the ideal spot in this house for it. It's still nice to have outside the dining room when we play poker.
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Jonathan, your project is *way* more ambitious. I look forward to seeing it completed. We should trade RED footage. I emailed you a few months back. Email me sometime.
Yep, it's bad. Especially the red leather couches and fake tree covering the AC unit in the corner. But the windows are plumb, sir! The camera lens just distorts things. :)
The mailto address will get obfuscated after the 24 hour Slashdot effect has passed. For now I'm being nice and letting people email me without the trouble.
Heh, I'm not worried about the wires. I'm more concerned with the fact that there are now nice holes in the walls to feed oxygen to any fire that might start above my FIREPLACE.
The vWindow was originally planned to be 4x3 panels (12 panels total) and in our previous house on a wall that didn't have a fireplace.
The fireplace cuts down on the vertical space available and a 4x3 window would not fit. So since a viewer could imagine a metal conduit chimney suspended between the windows, I elected to go that route since the wall was otherwise ideal.
I do agree that the fireplace is very unfortunate, but I won't be remodeling that wall for quite some time, so it'll just have to do for now. (The tree also hides a hideous AC unit)
Actually they look better in real life. It's very difficult to take a picture of even a real window while also exposing the room details. Most professional jobs fake it and paste in a window scene with an appropriately bright image.
Since the windows are on the far wall and can be seen from the family room, kitchen, living room, and dining room, there is minimal parallax effect lost. You effectively don't walk "past" the displays, but you can walk closer or farther away.
Static images do have their cheese factor, so you have to select them carefully. A beach shot, for example is going to look fake since the ocean isn't animated.
Heh. I wish. The hardware is from dumpster diving.
Too true. The cityscape was built for the house we were in 2 years ago. Sadly, we don't have the ideal spot in this house for it. It's still nice to have outside the dining room when we play poker.