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The Seven Stages of Big Screens

• There is also a new example in DropBox: BigScreensIACTemplateDropBox.zip which has all the resolution settings and boolean variables for testing locally on your laptop as well as on the 6 screens.

1. Hello World Eclipse!
   1. A Processing sketch built in Eclipse and shared with DropBox
   • Eclipse tutorial: http://www.mostpixelsever.com/tutorial/eclipse/
   • CVS Tutorial: DropBoxStuff
2. Hello World 11520x1080
   1. Design a sketch that is 1920x540.
   2. Bring that sketch to the 3 screen set-up and expand it to 3840x1080 on all machines
   3. Use these tricks to get it full screen: Processing Full Screen Hacks
3. Hello World 6 Screens MPE
   1. This is your first multi-window application. Make something simple that runs locally with two windows, for example two 320x480 make a total resolution 640x480.
   2. Adapt the sketch to run on the screens in the lounge. Try one client first (two LCD monitors). Then two (four LCD monitors). Then go to 6 screens. It helps to make strong use of the aspect ratio (i.e. anything with horizontal movement is good.) This should be really really really really really simple! Just prove that it works!
4. Your 6 Screen Baby
   1. Make a single screen prototype of your project (keeping it very simple, do not program everything you want, just the basics.)
   2. Take a single screen prototype of your project and run it on 6 screens using MPE. There should be no real-time data or interaction, this is a prototype that fakes these real time elements.
5. It's alive
   1. Incorporate your real-time data / interaction with your single-screen prototype.
   2. Incorporate your real-time data / interaction with the 6 screen system. Be highly conscious of the limits of the system!
6. Finish it up
   1. Tweak design and functionality over and over and over again until you are done.
7. Show the world!