Spider & Colorizer instructions

Install this, if not present already:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9B2DA534-3E03-4391-8A4D-074B9F2BC1BF&displaylang=en

Download from here:
http://mrfeinberg.com/noplace/
both Shpidah.zip and colorizer.zip

Extract zips to:
c:\noplace

Download and place into c:\noplace\Shpidah:
http://noplace.mw2mw.com/doc/china/Shpidahspec.zip

Download and place into c:\noplace\colorizer:
http://noplace.mw2mw.com/doc/china/colorizerspec.zip

then:

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SPIDER
From the command prompt,

C:\noplace\Shpidah>Shpidah spider-rapture.txt
etc or similar.

where “spider-rapture.txt” is a specification text file to get images from Flickr.

all the terms for each cluster:

Shpidah spider-americandream.txt

Shpidah spider-communism.txt

Shpidah spider-ecoearth.txt

Shpidah spider-rapture.txt

Shpidah spider-nirvana.txt

Shpidah spider-urbanutopia.txt

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COLORIZER
From the command prompt,

C:\noplace\colorizer>colorizer colorizer-urbanutopia.txt L:\noplace\urbanutopia
etc or similar.

where colorizer-urbanutopia.txt is a colorizing specification text file
and L:\noplace\urbanutopia (for instance) is a directory containing images to be processed

all the terms for each cluster:

colorizer colorizer-urbanutopia.txt L:\noplace\urbanutopia

colorizer colorizer-ecoearth.txt L:\noplace\ecoearth

colorizer colorizer-rapture.txt L:\noplace\rapture

colorizer colorizer-americandream.txt L:\noplace\americandream

colorizer colorizer-communism.txt L:\noplace\communism

colorizer colorizer-nirvana.txt L:\noplace\nirvana

Noplace Hardware Specs

7 COMPUTERS: eg:

• Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor
• Memory: 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
• Hardrive: Sata drive, 20gb min.
• Network card for wire
• Windows XP (not vista), please advise.
• Pairs of speakers with extra-long cables from computer to speakers.

4 PROJECTORS:

• Resolution: 800×600 is enough, or more
• Lumens: 3500 lumens or more - brightness is more important than resolution.
• VGA cables
  From computers to projectors, some of these may be long.

TOUCHSCREEN:

• 21″ touchscreen, (Tate)

NETWORK:

• 8-port hub for local communication between our computers.
• Network cables
• Wirelessor other connection to Internet access

We understand that there will be wireless in the museum. However, as our piece is running from a local server and will fail if the wireless goes down, we would like to have wired connections between our computers.

Installation diagram2

1. CPU1 has the software that drives the touchscreen user-program.
2. CPU1 Has a “tag server” that serves tags to each individual computer.
3. CPU1-7 have image players and sound players.
4. CPU1-7 have tag sequencers that refer to the “tag server” to tell them which tags they should using.
5. CPU1-7, the sound player sounds have only a limited amount of tags compared to the images. As the amount of tags for sounds are small, it would be useful if the sound player could read all the tags of the images currently playing, not just what the tag sequencer is playing… to be discussed.
6. The sound player will only play if there are tags, otherwise it remains silent. This is to avoid a cacophony of sounds in the gallery.
7. It would be great if the image player on each machine also paused or… when no tags were available. Silence is golden.