The following are some videos experimenting with the automated compact shelving that is to be found on levels six to eight at the new Library of Robert Gordon University. One can see a selection of photographs showing the views to be seen from my previous post.
The following video features some interesting equipment featured at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show that was held in Las Vegas 6th to 11th April 2013. If you watch the video you will see a selection of camera stabilisation equipment. In one case instead of the standard steadicam and active computerised stabilisation system is presented that can be easily hand-held. Other featured products include cameras & Jibs.
Vimeo Takes NAB: Tech News from Vimeo Video School on Vimeo.
Yesterdays post contained some photographs taken from the roof of the Round Tower at the Garthdee Campus of Robert Gordon University. This post as the title says includes a number of timelapse videos taken around 06:30 in the morning just as the sun was rising.
A few images of the Round Tower may also be seen below, giving some idea of the location from where the videos were recorded & yesterdays photos were taken.
The following videos demonstrate some interesting setups where as always light plays a hugely important role. The first example below is that of creating the Bokeh Effect. This is achieved using a long lens to set the background out of focus. The background has a dark card / velum lit from behind with a number of holes punched in it to allow light to stream through. Capturing an image of an object good and sharp in the foreground with the Bokeh Effect in the background can create some interesting effects. The addition of gels or coloured acetate sheets can add that extra dimension. Perhaps experimenting with a number of coloured acetates could generate a really nice effect. The addition of a reflective surface adds some really nice reflections into the mix both from the foreground object and the light streaming into the scene from the background.
Another interesting effect can be created with a zoom lens with a slow shutter of a few seconds. Varying the zoom over the time of the exposure to the imaging sensor generates an interesting blurring. You will see that the scene is initially composed with just one side on light, though the resulting exposure is a little dark, hence the addition of some additional lighting to the front of the subject solves this.
A fairly recent previous post looked at light painting, mainly from the perspective of a person creating shapes using a torch or a mobile. The video below is a different view on light painting where objects are illuminated with light. Varying the placement of the light, from back, front or even just from the top down creates quite an array of different shots.
Given that one can use black card in the production of the Bokeh Effect from the first video above another nice composition to try out is to photograph a wine glass making use of a few black cards to control the lighting / reflections of the scene.
If you are perhaps doing a good deal of product photography then you may find something like a Lastolite Cubelite to be of use, so that you can have nicely controlled soft lighting of the product you wish to capture.
Folding up one of these Cubelites can require a bit of practice.
Thalmic Labs have developed a device that can be worn on the forearm that has the potential to controll a myriad of devices using gesture based intereaction techniques. Further details can be seen on their website. https://getmyo.com.
In the previous semester I had a group of students for a module on Audio & Video Production. In the past days a new YouTube Channel was created and a selection of videos were uploaded. A week or so prior to this I had organised a screening of the videos at a Cinema located just a few minutes away from where we’re based. It was really great to spend some time in the projection room and see both a film and digital projection system.
The videos below should give you a sense of what the students produced, I hope you enjoy them. Have written another blog post giving a little more info on this.
If you have recorded some footage making use of a green screen and wish to insert your own background behind the actor/talent then it is well worth while to reduce the overall computation load of the chromakeyer beforehand. The 4/8/16 Point Garbage Matte may be found within the Video Effects option of the Effects panel, within a sub folder called Keying.
Should your actor / talent be moving around quite a bit, you may wish to keyframe the position of the garbage matte over time. The video below give a sense of the keyframing process, once you can do it for one effect you can do it for any effect.
The final step is to go ahead and apply a chromakey effect to the video clip on your timeline. You will note that there are a few different chromakey effects available.
You may find that you can get better keying results with the Ultra Key effect. All in all, it will take a bit of time and tweaking to get the perfect chroma keying result. Probably the most important part in all this process is however the quality of the recorded footage. Light is essential, both on the subject and on the background. The background should be evenly lit right across the frame. If you have the option of recording in interlaced or progressive, then choose progressive as this will capture full frames rather than half frames in the case of interlaced, added to that make sure you record at as high a bit rate as you can. At the end of the day if you have captured footage that is well lit, progressive and at a good resolution then the process of chromakeying should be just a matter of a few clicks and your done.
One of the key elements to photography is of course light. Without light one would simply have a blank image. If you enjoy landscape photography then the magic hour at sunrise and sunset are really the only times of the day for such photography. The reason being that photography is in essence about two key things composition / framing of the subject and the painting of the scene with light.
Light can be described in four different forms, transmitted, reflected, soft and hard light. The sun on a clear day is a good example of hard light as one can see really strong shadows on a summers day. Soft / diffused light is that which you would find on an overcast day with little to no visible shadows to be seen. In the case of taking a photograph of a sunset for example you also have the ability of taking in transmitted light, in the form of being able to see the light source. Should you be located close to the sea or a lake then you can also make use of the reflected light from the water.
One of the classing photographic assignments is of course Portraiture. Often you may hear that you should always shoot with the light (sun) to your back. However by shooting into the light source you can capture some wonderful colour and highlights. A large aperture lens is also great for portraiture, thus allowing for a shallow depth of field to be created and all the emphases being placed on the subject in question.
If you enjoy landscape photography then some of the videos below may be of interest.
The following video includes a number of examples of some interesting landscape shots to the music of Enya!
Its not just light but also composition that is important to any great image. You can perhaps glean a few tips on the subject of composition from the final video.
The video above details some really fun things one can do by freezing motion varying the exposure between 1/100 to 1/1000 of a second. The camera is of course set to manual, as well as continuous capture to grab several frames in quick succession. Water is being poured into a wine glass that has been mounted at an angle whilst the main light source illuminates from behind a defused background (velum). Adding some food colouring to the water creates that additional level of drama and dimension to the shot.
The next video looks at capturing the splash of a water droplet. Again like the previous setup this is done without the use of flash photography techniques, though they both make-use of a continuous light source.
Another fun experiment to do is to capture bubbles as they float down to earth. To really freeze the motion exposures on the order of 1/250 of a second allow for some interesting shots to be captured.
One further interesting video fairly similar to the second last one in which the task is to capture a splash, instead of capturing a water drop, this time the task is focused on capturing the splash caused by the dropping of a spanner into a tray of water.
Gavin Howie also has a nice video demonstrating how to capture water splashes. Initially he uses a white sheet of paper as a background. Towards the end of the video he looks at the addition of colour to the image, firstly by changing the white balance, in this particular case he uses tungsten. The alternative option is to use a coloured background that results in some really interesting colouration on the waters surface.
If you happen to have an aquarium floating around then you can have a go at dropping a selection of fruit and vegetables in and capturing the motion of the impact and splash.
Its always of course useful to take a look at the user manual of your camera to be familiar with the settings. In the case of the Canon 600D one can download the user manual from the support page on canon.co.uk. You will see on page 88 of the manual that the Canon 600D is capable of shooting about 3.7 shots per second in continuous mode. One can find details about the Tv setting on page 94 allowing for motion to frozen or blurred.
Some months ago myself and a collegue assembled a Libec Swift Jib 50 Kit (user manuals and specs are available from this page as pdf files), including the Jib arm, T102B tripod, & DL08 Dolly, along with the REMO30 pan/tilt head, attached to a Sony NX5E video camera. The following video is a timelapse of the assembly process. Earlier today I gave a live demo of the setup process, with the addition of linking the video feed to a SWIT 7 inch monitor at 42 inch TV via HDMI.
The following videos give a sense of the capabilities of the system & some further details on the assembly process.
The video below in particular give a good overview of how the system can work when connected to both a monitor and HD TV.
The next video provides a good overview of the setup processes involved.
One can get a good sense of the type of shots that are capable of being captured from this video.
Another good example is that of a wedding scenario.
A boxing match also provides some interesting potential for various shot types and dynamic movement.
The following video demonstrates how the Jib system can be used for the purposes of making a music video with some really nice smooth motion and a variety of angles being captured.
The following video is a quick demo to a former MSc student of mine on how the system works, as you can see viewing the cameras perspective on a large HD TV is far more entertaining and useful that a small low and fairly low resolution monitor.
This evening I attended a lecture held in Cowdary Hall at the Aberdeen Art Gallery titled Regenerating Aberdeen: A Vision for a Thriving and Vibrant City Centre. It was great to see the hall more or less entirely full to capacity. The event was chaired by the Principal of Robert Gordon University Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski. The panel of four speakers included a number of those who were involved in developing the report including Professor Richard Laing and Dr. David McClean. The photographs below should give you some sense of the event and the very much appropriate location.
The discussion paper centred around three distinct principles: 1. Connectivity, 2.Multiplicity of use and finally 3. Adaptability and coherence. The presentation was punctuated with a number of photographs throughout showing elements from cities around Europe. Copenhagen for example featured a few times, I had visited in 2005 myself and was amazed at just how easy it was for cyclists to get around. It was very much a city where the cyclist had the right of way, and I could see myself interested in using this form of transport given the priority given to cyclists. In most other cities I wouldn’t even consider it for a nanosecond as a viable option.
The paper also proposed ten priority action points ranging from creating links between Union Street and the Harbour to Restoring city squares such as Golden Square, Bon-Accord and the Castlegate.
One thing I found perhaps surprising was a limited mention of Aberdeens 2017 bid for European Capital of Culture. According to the news of 20th Feb Aberdeens team of five was appointed. Just a few days later on the 28th Feb the bid was lodged. Today it was announced that Aberdeen and Dundee would be the two candidates from Scotland. I have been to a number of cities that have held the title of Capital of Culture in recent years and each one was a joy to behold for visitors / pedestrians. The following are some of my own thoughts and comments for how life could be breathed into the city bearing in mind the ever approaching 2017 deadline.
One city I visited was Sibiu, which held the title in 2007. It was the summer of 2006 however when I visited and was really amazed by the sheer number of people throughout the city that were doing work to the squares and buildings. The best way of describing it was a veritable army at work. Never a time before or since have I seen so much work being carried out at such a rapid rate. The evening that I arrive in Sibiu I was treated to an outdoor concert in one of the squares. You will note from the images below the use of an easy to erect staging area and the myriad of market stalls selling all kinds of food and drink. The atmosphere was really quite amazing, especially with the concert ending with a fireworks display. Another interesting feature was the use of projections on the walls of the buildings surrounding the square (Piata Mare (Grand Square)).
With the demolition process of the Old City Council building just commenced, the transformation of this area into a civic square could be of tremendous benefit to the city, allowing functions such as that seen in the photographs above of the concert in Sibiu to be held. Further just like in Sibiu the surrounding buildings could become a platform for projected imagery, in particular Marischal College. Also the opening up of this area would bring a new lease of live to Provost Skene’s House. Those who like photography would also benefit from being able to photograph Marischal College directly face on and take in the entire facade, rather than all the photographs you currently see taken in a side on manner. It was mentioned that the arrival of the Olympic Torch was a great event for Aberdeen, and brought out the crowds by the thousands. Perhaps a plaza in-front of Marischal College could be a good venue for such future gatherings!
With a square in place capable of hosting a reasonably good sized crowd one could look at linking it with the other open areas of the city, perhaps by forming a thoroughfare or link via Neitherkirkgate through to the Kirk of St Nicholas on to Little Belmont Street and eventually linking up with Union Terrace Gardens. One one then have a haven of substantial area right within the heart of the city centre. Planting of course could help take toxins out of the air and create a set of lungs for the city centre.
What is a city of Culture without a viewing platform allowing one to readily get a feel for the cityscape. Plans for a 40-meter big wheel at Aberdeen’s Castlegate were dropped back in 2009. Perhaps the “new plaza” in-front of Marshall College could be a potential place, allowing for some spectacular views of the second largest granite building in the world to be captured. Would also make for a wonderful high rise platform to gather photographs of various events and concerts that could potentially he held in the square.
Some of the following images should give a sense of what Sibiu was like in the summer prior to becoming the Capital of Culture. Its interesting to see the work being done to the square, the planting and the revamping of all the facades of the surrounding buildings. Clearly this is a city well underway in preparing itself for the year ahead.
It may have also been interesting to hear about how the Expansion of Aberdeen Harbour into Nigg Bay would effect the city. What would be the effect on traffic, how could the city take advantage of the additional cruise ship visitors. Another interesting element to factor into the equation is the Western peripheral Route and the new Business Park and Hotels being developed in Dyce.
The hosting of a very active programme of summer festivals in the lead-up to 2017 could also bring out the crowds. Some film festivals as well could perhaps help enhance the cultural aspects of the city. Earlier today I hosted the what I believe to be the first collaboration between RGU and the Belmont Cinema, by organising a screening of the videos some of the 4th year computing students produced for one of the modules I was teaching in the previous semester, focused on Audio and Video Production. Perhaps more collaborations such as this can enhance cultural elements !
In Ireland both Cork (2005) and Dublin (1991) have held the title. Cork like Sibiu in the pictures above undertook a tremendous renovation project to the main street and surrounds in the years leading up to 2005. The amount of traffic going down the main street has been greatly reduced and a great deal of pedestrianization established. To say the city saw an immense transformation would be an understatement. The city of Linz held the title in 2009, in the lead-up its electronic arts museum moved to a much larger space and is a fantastic attraction for the city. The city also features a wonderful pedestrianized area, tram system, and a spectacular view overlooking the entire city and a really interesting modern art museum.
The city of Aberdeen has many other attractions that should be fully exploited such as the potential heritage centre at Rubislaw Quarry or the renovation taking place at Duthie Park. Speaking of Duthie park, right next door to the east lies the home of Aberdeen Model Railway Club. Expansion of the park to the east to take in the Railway Club area would be of tremendious touristic value. Along with a number of carrages that are being restored is one of the last remaining turntables in Scotland (see here for further images of Ferryhill). The new build at Riverside East, Garthdee Campus is also a great asset to the city along with the new Library at Aberdeen University. These buildings again can provide the photo enthusiast with some great views of the city.
One may find the following paper “European Capitals of Culture as Incentives for Construction of European Identity?” to be of interest. It identifies all the previous cities since 1985 and up to 2015 that have or will hold the title of European Captial of Culture (see page 5).
I could of course go on with further ideas and suggestions, but its getting late in the evening now and will be demonstarating the setup and use of the Libec Swift Jib to students early in the morning. Thanks to all those who presented and the interesting Q&A session afterwards.
The entire topic of light-painting seems to have gathered ever increasing interest in recent years. This tutorial video was created by a former student of mine about a year or so ago.
Light Painting Tutorial from roman on Vimeo.
The essentials of course is to make use of a tripod and manual control. Next its a question of setting to shutter speed to a long enough duration for you to create your work of art using light. One then of course needs to play with aperture to control the amount of light gathered by the lens and depth of field. Keeping your ISO as low as possible will help to keep image quality up. Manual focus is again essential to ensure its constant during the shoot.
The following are a few other videos looking at light painting that you may enjoy.
The video below looks at light painting from a very much different perspective to the ones above, where by it uses light to accentuate objects in the scene making them pop out in the image.
If you have an iPhone/iPod Touch then you may like to tryout the Light Paint app allowing you to have a multicolored torch in operation.
How many times do you see people with modern day compact digital cameras spinning around in an attempt to capture a panoramic image. In many cases the results can be fairly good, however on closer inspection it becomes obvious that the generated image wasn’t rotated around the Nodal Point of the camera. To achieve any reasonably good/accurate panoramic image without any issues of parallax then one needs a good level tripod and panoramic head. If you are creating a panorama just by hand-holding a camera and stitching it together yourself then you may find the Content-Aware Fill feature in Photoshop to be a useful tool to fill in any blank areas created by the stitching process.
The video below gives a good idea of how to setup an panoramic head to ensure one can remove any parallax problems.
The Manfrotto 303 QTVR Panoramic Head Kit is one option available that has been around for several years now and has been superseded by the “plus” edition.
The Manfrotto 300N (3414) Panoramic Head allows up to ten different angles of rotation ranging from 5, 10, 15, 20, 24, 30,36, 45, 60 to 90 degrees. This equates to the creation of a panorama ranging from 72 shots right down to just 4. To generate any reasonable panorama one need an overlap of at least 25% from one image to the next. Also to get a greater vertical spread mounting the camera in portrait mode is best, so you could expect to take a dozen shots or so depending on the focal length on the lens used.
The Manfrotto 338 QTVR Leveling Base is also a useful item allowing for fine adjustment (plus/minus 5 degrees) of the levels via three grub screws.
Many photographers use tripods that have 1/4 inch heads, hence a 1/4 to 3/8 adapter is a very useful item to have in your bag allowing secure connection to be established between the tripod head the leveling base unit (also available from amazon).
The user manual for the 303 and 303Plus is a hive of information giving a good overview on how to get setup using the panoramic head. To get up and running one really just needs to just look through three pages of instructions within the user manual. This version of the manual is 20 pages in length and written in a few languages. The following guide provides a good overview of getting setup with the 303plus QTVR pano head.
The 303SPH is capable of taking both multirow and spherical panoramas in contrast to the cylindrical panoramas that may be created using the 303 panoramic head. One may find it interesting to look through the user manual.
The following video gives an overview on how to create panoramas in Photoshop using the photo-merge option.
The following videos are very informative in providing a really good explanation how the Depth of Field of works. One very useful tool is the Canon EOS Utility allowing one to control their camera from a desktop computer or laptop. Its an interesting interplay between the focal length of lens, the distance to the subject and the aperture. This webpage may help to give some further information featuring elements such as the circle of confusion and the hyperfocal distance, you will even find a simple DOF calculator at the bottom of the page. The next page on dofmaster.com provides another useful dof calculator and some useful illustrations. You may also enjoy the following DOF equations, providing details on the hyperfocal distance as well as near and far distances of acceptable sharpness.
Some members of the Computer Society and a few others gathered together for few games of Minecraft recently. The video below give some idea of what went on. More info on the RGU CompSoc wordpress site.
Storyboards are an essential part of the pre-production process, helping to get the ideas and concepts envisioned in a script fleshed out in a more intuitive and visual way. The following are a few videos highlighting the story-boarding process.
I very much like the use made of storyboards in the video clip below – a behind the scenes look at the making of Star Wars Episode I the Phantom Menace. Between roughly 01:00 and 02:00 one can readily get a sense for the shear number of shots required for the film and a very good sense of what elements within the shot will be real and not-so-real. The quick run through by George Lucas with just a few coloured highlighters readily helps to give a sense of the shear scale of the task ahead.
One way perhaps to start thinking about storyboarding is to look at a short clip and storyboard it out, by doing something like this you can quickly get a sense for a number of different shot types that are regularly used, some appreciation for the timing / pace of each shot and some sense of the camera movements involved. The video below is a trailer of Harry Potter and the Half Prince Blood, how many distinct scenes / shot types and camera moves can you count and identify?
If you haven’t sketched or made a storyboard before then some pointers may be useful, the following videos give some hints and tips. The final video below shows some scenes and the corrosponding storyboards from the 1976 film Taxi Driver.
The following are a few videos showing the Rubin’s Tube experiment, where one can readily see the standing waveform of a sound. You will see in the videos below that the Mythbusters have a go at creating this experiment, whilst some others play music from Queen and Europe.
Was delighted to see my YouTube Channel setup just 13 months ago has just gone past 100,000 views. The channel has a little over 600 videos covering anything and everything from Building a PC to Roller Coasters, Aquariums, Dredging and even setting up a Motion Capture system.
Why I don’t know but my most popular video at just under 5,000 views is a POV video of the Blue Flyer Roller Coaster at Nickelodeon Land, Blackpool, Pleasure Beach. Why this is I really don’t know as I have posted several other Roller Coaster videos that are far more exciting. On the best day this video peaked at 57 views.
The next post popular video showed the process of Installing an Intel Core i7 3930K Hexacore CPU on an ASUS Sabertooth X79 Socket 2011 Motherboard. This video was uploaded in July 2012 and has reached 4500 views. The most popular day peaked at 44 views.
At just under 4500 views the third most popular video shows the process of Installing the Corsair H100 Radiator and Pump within a Cosmos 2 Case Sabertooth X79 MB 3930K CPU.
At 3000 views a video showing Hogwarts Castle at Universal Studios Orlando essentially being attacked by Voldemort, hasn’t been as popular as I would have expected it to be. Quite a few of the lightning strikes happen very close (although in the distance) to the Castle, creating some interesting scenes.
A video of a Chinook Helicopter performing at Lecuchar Airshow received 238 views on the evening that it was uploaded. It was amazing to see the maneuverability of the aircraft. I uploaded just over 100 video clips of various aircraft from the airshow amounting to about one hour of footage.
Another interesting playlist coming in at four and a half hours of footage shows the Nordic Giant Dregder working in Aberdeen Harbour. The most popular video in this series shows the Imposing Hulk of the Nordic Giant and the Liebherr P995 Excavator hard at work.
Perhaps a more unusual playlist is that showing a set of blank screens in various colours ranging from White to Black and on the Red, Green and Blue. The most popular of these at roughly 2500 views is that of a Blank White screen and nothing else.
Perhaps the cutest video posted is that of a family of Dwarf Mongoose – a little surprising to see it has received just 79 views, on the other-hand they are not the most active and energetic of creatures.
So what makes for a popular YouTube video – well certainly it seems that people enjoy staring at video containing white and nothing else. Videos with an element of comedy seem to be very popular, and of course PSY Gangnam Style surpasses them all at 1.25 billion views, even Justin Bieber – Baby ft. Ludacris trails behind at almost 830 million. Will we soon give up watching television and go towards online digital content only?
The first snow of 2013 in Aberdeen appeared overnight on Sunday 13th Jan and into the early hours of the morning on the 14th. The videos below are looking out towards Rosemount Viaduct and beyond to Union Street during a snow shower in the late evening of Monday the 14th.
On Monday evening at roughly 19:30 or a little later a 007 James Bond Themed Fireworks Display for Guy Fawkes Night took place down at the Beach in Aberdeen. I am sure we are all familiar with the phrase – remember, remember the 5th of November. The videos shown below were recorded from Broad Hill and include footage of the crowds gathering before the event, some ships entering the harbour and also heading out to sea, the fireworks display itself as well as the resultant traffic that ensued directly after the event.
The second of our two Open Day’s at the School of Computing Science and Digital Media took place today (Saturday 3rd Nov 2012). The visitors to the School arrived for 10:00 in the morning at one of our computer labs, following on from this they were presented with a short series of talks introducing them to the school. After the talks they had the chance to look around at some of the demos we had running including a remotely operated camera jib system, a setup for product photography, motion tracking with the kinect, motion capture with a 12 camera optitrack system and an eye tracking system. The day concluded with a set of workshops focused on iPhone Programming and Human Computation.
In the lead-up to the open day I had spent Thursday afternoon setting up a 40″ TV that had just arrived in conjunction with the Libec Swift Jib 50 and REMO30. Friday morning was spent organising the demo rooms and reconfiguring the Jib. Neither the product photography setup with a 4ft lastolite cubelite or the optitrak motion capture system are to be seen in the videos from today. The afternoon was spent re-calibrating the OptiTrack MoCap system and getting various cameras and other bits and pieces sorted out. Between the preparations and editing the videos below I have spent two entire days getting things up and running, some results of which may be seen in the videos below, enjoy.
You will probably note that Nemo features quite heavily in the videos below, I had seen this in a Disney shop the previous weekend and thought it would look good in the office. Nemo is a really nice example of computer graphics and animation, hence quite a suitable decoration for the office.
The video below was recorded during our open day four weeks ago and includes several other scenes that weren’t included in the videos from today (see above).
The following are just a few short videos giving you a small flavor of the myriad of model trains that were available to see during the Aberdeen Model Railway Club Exhibition that took place on the weekend of 27/28th Oct 2012. One can find out further information about the club and exhibition from their website http://www.aberdeenmrc.co.uk.
The following video will give you some small sense of what it was like today during our Open Day at the School of Computing Science and Digital Media, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. It was held from about ten o’clock in the morning until three in the afternoon. After a half-hour registration period, visitors were treated to a welcome talk and a short series of lectures. Following on from this a number of hour long workshops were held on such topics as iPhone programming, cryptography and wireless networks. Their was also time to have a chat with Academics and see some of the demonstrations we had running throughout the day, most of which may be seen in this video. As you can see in some segments we were piping a video feed of the demonstrations happening in other rooms into one of our PC labs and projecting them for all to see.
Demonstrations included the use of an Eye Tracker to identify the area on screen a person was focusing on. A full body Motion Capture System comprising of a twelve camera Flex 13 system from Optitrack was also available to see in action. In concert with this we also had a motion tracking demo running on a Microsoft Kinect for windows, though the students who were doing the video recording didn’t get any footage of this. Also demonstrated was the Microsoft Surface (Samsung SUR40) which supports up to 52 points of interaction concurrently. If you watch all the video you may see that we certainly came close to this maximum value. All in all everybody seemed to enjoy the day visitors, staff and student helpers alike. Our next open day will be in a months time, at which point we hope to have a far larger and wider set of demonstrations to show the visitors to the school. See my YouTube Channel for further videos of some of the equipment seen here in this video.
Chris Young another member of staff at the School also grabbed hold of a camera and quickly recorded some of footage from of the Motion Capture System in operation. For more videos from Chris take a look at his Vimeo Channel.
Motion Capture System from Chris Young on Vimeo.
Time-lapse video showing the sunrise at the main entrance to Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. This video was recorded at seven in the morning on the 1st October 2012. As the sun rises you can see some nice reflections of the clouds in the library tower. The Faculty of Health Sciences (FOHS) Building reflects the light of the rising sun just below roof level. The recently constructed main entrance is also illuminated by the rising sun and towards the end of the video one can see the lettering of the universities name being projected onto the road.
As you can see the exterior work to the library tower is almost complete apart from boxing in the facilities at roof level. Given that the University is hosting an Open Day on Wednesday 3rd Oct 2012 I thought it appropriate to create these videos to help give some sense of what the campus is like, especially as all those in the city centre will be moving to the Garthdee campus during the summer of 2013 in time for the kickoff of the 2013-14 academic year.
During the summer period at sun rise one could see some really nice interactions with the glass of the library tower due to the transmissive light from the sun cutting across the atmosphere, perhaps another time-lapse in about ten months time is called for when all the work has been completed and the sun is in a more northerly position at dawn. For further detail on the progress of the new build you can see my previous post from the 30th Sept.
