The Greenhouse in Holland, Michigan. So the concept of the Digital Reflecting Pool was born. After several months of research and development, the software and hardware elements took form. The imagery is created in realtime, and it is highly unlikely that a person would ever see the same thing twice.
Waves propagate across the five screens as if flowing across one continuos surface.
This first season of operation was devoted to getting the system installed and running, the future holds new possibilities in expansion of the source code. Main areas of expansion involve more interactive elements and a richer set of messaging features. Imagery Stills from individual screens Click here to see a time-lapse quicktime movie of the procedurally generated imagery Technical All the software was conceived and written by Matt Daly. The software is written in the 'c' programming language and makes extensive use of OpenGL and multithreading. No toolkits or package modular components were used, except for a user interface toolkit called fltk .