RainTable
01.15.2006 - ongoing

RainTable is an interactive multi-user application developed by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Department of Geology at the University of Minnesota, and the Science Museum of Minnesota. RainTable is designed and developed for public use/exhibit, specifically in a museum setting. The Science Museum of Minnesota plans to incorporate RainTable into its educational exhibits.

RainTable lets users interact with two-dimensional maps of the Earth on a large high-resolution digital table, select locations of rainfall, and then watch as the rain flows down mountains and across fields, cuts channels through slopes and plains, and floods streams and rivers.

As in the photo at the right, participants can interact with RainTable using the LambdaTable display system, developed by EVL. The LambdaTable consists of a 7-by-3-foot, 24-Megapixel display table, built using six Dell LCD 2560x1600 displays, driven by a cluster of 6 ... >>more