6D Graphics from MIT

Researchers at MIT are demo'ing a six-dimensional graphics display. The first four dimensions are space and time (as always), the remaining two are lighting and shadows. The images change in response to:

1. Changes in the viewer's viewpoint (first three dimensions).
2. Changes in time (fourth dimension).
3. Changes in lighting and shadows external to the image (remaining dimensions).

David Chandler of the MIT News Office gives this example in MIT developing super-realistic image system:

In training someone how to carry out industrial inspections, an image of the device to be inspected would respond just like a real object when the inspector shines lights on it from different angles, for example.

The 6D display currently costs $30 per pixel.

Comments

[Pete Segal]

I suppose the 6D display could be connected to the AutoCad ASHADE layer to establish initial condition. Perhaps other visualizations are possible of non-visible radiation (heat/sound/other emissions).