Globe4D Videos
Globe4D at Cinekid 2007
Globe4D has been exhibited to thousands of Dutch kids during the Cinekid 2007 festival at Westergasfabriek Amsterdam.
Globe4D at TodaysArt 2007
TodaysArt 2007 in The Hague was a brilliant festival!
Globe4D at Siggraph 2007
Thousands of people used Globe4D, the four-dimensional globe! It was a wonderful event. Looking forward to Wired NEXTFEST in Los Angeles, Cinekid in Amsterdam and Today’s Art in The Hague!
Globe4D at Siggraph 2007
This movie shows an animation of future continental drift and one of hypothetical sea level changes.
Movie by Christopher Baker
Some recent experiments
Globe4D first prototype
This was our first video demonstration which was rewarded with an ACM Multimedia 2006 award. At the moment we are working on a new video demonstration which will be available within a few days. Below there is a second movie which contains pictures of the new version which was launched in April at the Laval Virtual 2007 conference.
Laval Virtual 2007 (updated: 3 minutes)
July 6th, 2006 at 7:13 am
Neat
July 8th, 2006 at 3:17 am
Closest to real time travel ever.
July 9th, 2006 at 7:29 am
I want one.
July 10th, 2006 at 5:19 am
very good use of existing technolgy to revamp old technology -ie globe - could also display antique maps over hisorical periods
improvement:
the projector needs to mounted from a frame attached to the table on one side or as an arch. The whole unit is then portable. The globe should be seamless,maybe polycarbonate hemispheres welded together.
or better still project from the underside of a translucent dome with touch sensitive surface. Or again a hemispherical LCD touchscreen.
July 10th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
Yeah, it’s a cool ball, but you do nothing with a ball if you don’t have the software! I more likely would like to have a software that shows the World how it was 5 billions years ago… the ball? I can build one my self!
July 11th, 2006 at 11:38 pm
that’s amazing!!!
July 12th, 2006 at 4:40 pm
How about making it possoble to zoom? I know I’d like that!
July 12th, 2006 at 5:52 pm
Is there a way to superimpose longitude and latitude on the sphere, maybe with the ability to change the prime meridien according to time and/or other relevant factors?
July 13th, 2006 at 8:07 am
I see applications in medicine - a way for medical researchers and doctors to look at organs under various conidtions (normal, alzheimers, etc.), especially the time axis and ‘peeling away layers of onion’ capability.
They should market Globe 4D to schools and libraries everywhere!
Chris
geointel.com
July 13th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
Fascinating; copyright is a must, or someone else will come up with an advanced version before you could say F.N.
Otherwise the projector should be incorporated somehow. Size is another question, as illumination & sound is also an important issue. It should give the impression of being there in time. The evolution of civilizations, emerging of countries, rise & falls, invasions, discoveries … it’s all in this 4D project. Fine tuning the timescale is essential, & that’s only a few more C++ lines.
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Congratulations!
July 13th, 2006 at 5:59 pm
I like the way the single globe can be used to project a variety of types of data.
ODT, Inc. has a population map, with a few small maps showing population growth over time. My students always think one of them is wrong because it doesn’t show the Americas. When we talk through human migration across the land bridge, it begins to bring home the reality of population change.
I would love to see Globe4D with a program that would project localized population densities through time: that would be dynamite.
July 16th, 2006 at 10:25 pm
WOW! Great concept…i am a map lover. This is maps on steroids. Would love to see globe showing the progression of species…and perhaps pollution. Would be a great tool to show human use and abuse of the planet. Great Job!
August 2nd, 2006 at 12:28 pm
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Ik weet niet of jullie er reeds mee bezig zijn, maar jullie mogen ZEKER NIET nalaten om dit excellente idee te patenteren.
Het zou zonde zijn om iemand anders van jullie werk te laten profiteren !
Doe zo verder, gasten !!!
August 4th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Very cool folks. Hope you plan to make the data-module an open-source kinda thing. You could get teachers and professors to program all sorts of historical data into this thing. Load it up with all satalite weather images ever collected. Superimpose it with all the land-based weather radar images ever collected.
Civilization data, watch borders and countries change over time. Military history, watch the Mongols take over half the world. Track de-forestation, watch birds migrate.
Great tool for researchers, they can all get together and pool their data together on global changes in migratory patterns for all sorts of creatures.
Imagine, on one time-changing globe, you could watch the migration of the Canadian Snow Goose and the Blue Whale simultaniously. They might be related due to weather. So superimpose weather, tempurature, air and water currents.
Or pollution run-off, or plankton blooms, or water-oxygen ratios or agricultural changes.
If it’s one thing we have alot of, it’s raw data. If you could develop this to collect all global research data into one place, it could revolutionize science.
I thought Google Earth was the coolest, but, other than the fact that this is a physical globe, the 4D concept alone blows Google away. Globe4D is fantastic, congratz!!
Superimpose the global sales figures for ‘Grunge Rock-n-Roll’ albums with the prescription sales of Prozac!
The possibilities are endless.
September 14th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
fantastisch. mijn complimenten. Ik zie zoveel mogelijkheden. Ik werk op een school voor VO. Op welk termijn zou dit prototype op de markt kunnen komen? Ik zie hem nl. al helemaal staan bij ons in de mediatheek. Geweldig! Ben het eens met mario: kijk uit dat niemand de vruchten van je harde werken plukt: alles patenteren en snel (geven jullie nu al niet te veel weg??).
October 26th, 2006 at 11:08 pm
leuke reacties allemaal. ben er niet meer zo ongerust over dat jullie idee wordt gejat. de inmiddels internationale bekendheid vormt al een tamelijk veilig patent mijns inziens.
October 25th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Mooie vinding !!!!!
ik sprak 1 van de makers der moedertoevallig vandaag in Vlaardingen bij de Vettenoordskade waar ik gewoond hebt.
Zodoende werd mijn aandacht getriggerd.
Ik geef les op een VMBO school en het lijkt mij met wat aanpassingen ook een goede softwarematige toepassing op het active board.
Daarnaast lijkt het mij een uitermate geschikt object voor studie naar global warming (let op de naam global) en uitleg hierover. Ga Door !!! Groetjes, Bert
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Very nice job! BRAVO!!