How Do They Do It?

Hardware MEDIALAB has a network of Silicon Graphics workstations ranging from the Indy® to Indigo² IMPACTtm workstations to the RE² Onyxtm, making it one of the largest computer graphics centers in Europe.

• Medialab has tested and developed a wide variety of acquisition devices
• Latest motion tracking technology for performance animation from Polhemus
• 3D digitizers from Cyberware and Polhemus used for shape acquisition
• Film footage shot with a Solitaire
• Scanning services provided by Cinesite, London

Software In-House:

• Dozens of years of proprietary coding for real-time
• Tools developed at Medialab for optimum data transfer between third-party software
• CLOVIStm software (high-end virtual reality package designed to run on the Silicon Graphics platform)

Third-Party:

• 2D and 3D packages to increase capability, quality, and production throughput including:

  Explore and PowerAnimator from Alias/Wavefront

  SOFTIMAGE® from Microsoft

  FLAMEtm software from Discreet Logic

  Matador® from Parallax

  Elastic Realitytm from Elastic Reality

  COMPOSERtm from Alias|Wavefront

  Pandemonium® from Xaos Tools