Herman Miller, Clement Mok 1994
Project Description:
I built a
machine for taking a high-resolution interactive photograph of the soon-to-be
released Aeron Chair. I collaborated with a mechanic, a photographer and graphic
designer to take thousands of still photographs necessary for creating an object
movie.�� I then wrote the software for
displaying the resulting QTVR Movie in Director.� The display software popped up details of the chair�s features as
a user panned and tilted the chair to examine it.� Conversely, it spun the chair to display particular features that
the user wanted to see.� This was the
most elaborate and high-resolution object movie at that time.� I spoke about it at Viscomm and it was widely
written about.� ID Magazine gave it an
award for best presentation design.
Technical Notes:
The capturing rig used a Director interface, which controlled two large motors
using Alpha Products cards and controlled the shutter of what was then a very
unusual and sophisticated camera from Nikon.