This week, I constructed the live studio using cardboard, tape and construction paper. The inner walls is covered with black construction paper. I also strung LED lights around the corners of the walls to create uniform lighting on the object. Currently, we have a plastic cup for the platform but we are planning on improving this for our final design. The black construction paper ended up not quite being black through the camera due to the lighting of the LEDs and they showed up black. Because of this, we ended up covering the platform and some of the background with black velvet to create a black background that won’t show up on the camera, mimicking the effect of the chroma-key filters. Currently the live studio only have 1 camera installed. However, we are able to test out the full pipeline, from camera inside the studio to FPGA to the TV onto the pyramid. The full design on the FPGA is ready with all the memory blocks created; we just haven’t wire up all the cameras.
Breyden helped with putting the entire set up together. We then adjust the White Balance once we have the entire set up. We also spent some time to film some sample clips for our interim demo. I then stitched up the video and it can be seen through this link here.
We thought that overall, the hologram effect looks quite decent and the floating effect was achieved. The quality of our filming could be improved because this small film was filmed using an iPhone camera in low lighting. We were thinking for final demo, we can maybe film in slightly brighter settings because the illusions seems to still hold in brighter settings.
Below are images of the live studio and of the hologram under bright light studio.
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