SuperBowl & "The Matrix"

Lee_R_Copp · January 30, 2001, 4:53pm

Hey,

So who knows what they used to do that ‘Eyevision’ (“The Matrix” camera
spin) during
the instant replays?? It was a little jerky but it still looked pretty
cool…

I would hate to be the guy creating that ‘on-the-fly’ using Winblows…

~ Lee R. Copp
~ Project Engineer (EE/ME)
~ Michigan Scientific Corp.
~ 321 East Huron St.
~ Milford, MI 48381
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Steve_Munnings_Corma · January 30, 2001, 6:06pm

I read about it the other day…
Apparently, CBS has about 17 “robot” cameras, all trained at the same spot
on the field around about a 170 degree area of the stands.
They are all synchronized.
Apparently that “jerky” rotatation is when they change the view-point from
one camera to the next.
Looks wierd, but cool…

Lee R. Copp <Lee.R.Copp@MichiganScientific.com> wrote in message
news:956rd7$oh8$1@inn.qnx.com…

Hey,

So who knows what they used to do that ‘Eyevision’ (“The Matrix” camera
spin) during
the instant replays?? It was a little jerky but it still looked pretty
cool…

I would hate to be the guy creating that ‘on-the-fly’ using Winblows…>
~ Lee R. Copp
~ Project Engineer (EE/ME)
~ Michigan Scientific Corp.
~ 321 East Huron St.
~ Milford, MI 48381
~ 248-685-3939 x109 (V), 248-684-5406 (Fx)
~ > http://www.michiganscientific.com
~ mailto:> <Lee.R.Copp@MichiganScientific.com>

Colin_Burgess1 · January 30, 2001, 6:44pm

Steve Munnings, Corman Technologies <steve@cormantech.com> wrote:

I read about it the other day…
Apparently, CBS has about 17 “robot” cameras, all trained at the same spot
on the field around about a 170 degree area of the stands.
They are all synchronized.
Apparently that “jerky” rotatation is when they change the view-point from
one camera to the next.
Looks wierd, but cool…

I was a little dissapointed that they didn’t “morph” between the
shots. Surely a cluster of PC’s could do that in realtime these days?

Lee R. Copp <> Lee.R.Copp@MichiganScientific.com> > wrote in message
news:956rd7$oh8$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
Hey,

So who knows what they used to do that ‘Eyevision’ (“The Matrix” camera
spin) during
the instant replays?? It was a little jerky but it still looked pretty
cool…

I would hate to be the guy creating that ‘on-the-fly’ using Winblows…>
~ Lee R. Copp
~ Project Engineer (EE/ME)
~ Michigan Scientific Corp.
~ 321 East Huron St.
~ Milford, MI 48381
~ 248-685-3939 x109 (V), 248-684-5406 (Fx)
~ > http://www.michiganscientific.com
~ mailto:> <Lee.R.Copp@MichiganScientific.com>
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Lee_R_Copp · January 30, 2001, 8:10pm

I was a little dissapointed that they didn’t “morph” between the
shots. Surely a cluster of PC’s could do that in realtime these days?

Thats what I was thinking…It looked like they were morphing a little
bit but because of the camera seperation and time constraints they
couldn’t do a smooth transition.

I’m looking forward to the helmet cam myself…Just click on your
favorite player and ride along with him during the game…Just don’t
freak out when his helmet pops off after a big hit…

~ Lee R. Copp
~ Project Engineer (EE/ME)
~ Michigan Scientific Corp.
~ 321 East Huron St.
~ Milford, MI 48381
~ 248-685-3939 x109 (V), 248-684-5406 (Fx)
~ http://www.michiganscientific.com
~ mailto:<Lee.R.Copp@MichiganScientific.com>

Tony_Mantler · January 30, 2001, 8:15pm

Previously, Colin Burgess wrote in qdn.public.qnxrtp.advocacy:

Steve Munnings, Corman Technologies <> steve@cormantech.com> > wrote:
I read about it the other day…
Apparently, CBS has about 17 “robot” cameras, all trained at the same spot
on the field around about a 170 degree area of the stands.
They are all synchronized.
Apparently that “jerky” rotatation is when they change the view-point from
one camera to the next.
Looks wierd, but cool…

I was a little dissapointed that they didn’t “morph” between the
shots. Surely a cluster of PC’s could do that in realtime these days?
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To make it look any good, you’d need to do some amount of feature-matching between the different viewpoints, and that’s really an ai-complete problem without some external assistance or very small deltas between viewpoints.

Then again, it might be entertaining to see the players morphing into eachother, the football, the 20 yard line, etc, through the panning. “Hey, wasn’t that player on the other team in the last frame?”

It would probably be doable with about 5 times as many cameras, but by then you have enough data that a standard cluster would be completely swamped, which only leaves the option of writing a cheque with a really really big number on it to someone like SGI for a real supercomputer.

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SuperBowl & "The Matrix"

It would probably be doable with about 5 times as many cameras, but by then you have enough data that a standard cluster would be completely swamped, which only leaves the option of writing a cheque with a really really big number on it to someone like SGI for a real supercomputer. \

It would probably be doable with about 5 times as many cameras, but by then you have enough data that a standard cluster would be completely swamped, which only leaves the option of writing a cheque with a really really big number on it to someone like SGI for a real supercomputer.

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