1. SURF-IT Presenter: Ilya Sukharnikov August 29, 2008 Project: HIPerWall Large-Scale Animation Mentor: Prof. Stephen Jenks

2. Problem 50 displays, 25 G5’s Play extremely large-scale animation Utilizing the entire wall

3. Solution Split the picture into piecesSynchronize the playbackCreate movie files

4. Solution Use ImageMagick to split the pictures into parts FFMPEG to create the movie files Use FFMPEG to synchronize the playback and OpenGL to output it to screen

5. Ready to Use Playback is achieved for movie files of different formats Script for splitting/combining images GUI control program

7. Results Preprocessing can take as little as 20 minutes. 14400x7200 animation was played at 10fps

8. Goal Scalable movie Moveable movie Plug-n-Play

9. Questions? Thank You!