Information
Michael Naimark >
»Aspen Moviemap«, 1978 - 1979
Co-Workers & Funding:
Co-Worker: Uli Lechner http://www.naimark.n…t/projects/aspen.html
Technology
Descriptions & Essays
The first interactive moviemap was produced at MIT in the late 1970s of Aspen, Colorado. A gyroscopic stabilizer with 16mm stop-frame cameras was mounted on top of a camera car and a fifth wheel with an encoder triggered the cameras every 10 feet. Filming took place daily between 10 AM and 2 PM to minimize lighting discrepancies. The camera car carefully drove down the center of the street for registered match-cuts. In addition to the basic "travel" footage, panoramic camera experiments, thousands of still frames, audio, and data were collected. The playback system required several laserdisc players, a computer, and a touch screen display. Very wide-angle lenses were used for filming, and some attempts at orthoscopic playback were made.
Michael Naimark
Literature
Wagner, Kirsten. »Die Aspen Movie Map.« Paragrana. Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie 13 (2004): 43-47.
Naimark, Michael. »Place Runs Deep: Virtuality, Place and Indigenousness.« In Virtual Museum Symposium, edited by . Salzburg, AUT: 1998.
Naimark, Michael. »A 3D Moviemap and a 3D Panorama.« In SPIE Proceedings, edited by SPIE 3012, . San Jose, CAL: 1997.
Exhibitions & Events