Our engineering group provides core services for our research and production requirements; our technical expertise is deep in a variety of areas of research and production drawing upon our broad background of experience and diversity of skills. Those industries include:
- Software Engineering
- Pipeline Design and Development
- Visual Effects Tools Development and Production
- Shader Development and Optimization
- Camera and Motion Control Systems
- Physical/Dynamics Simulation, Surfacing
Rendering and Pre-Visualization - Real Time Data Acquisition, Remote Sensing and Process Control
- Hardware Design and Custom Device Development/Manufacturing
- Audio Synthesis and Engineering
- Computer Graphics Research and Development
Research and Development
Digital Cinema Arts has an active research and development team building the production and pipeline tools for film production and teaching. They provide a foundation of high quality production tools used for creation of science data visualization and visual effects. Some aspects of the work we do is based on the ongoing research and development of new techniques for achieving dynamic physical simulations, accelerated and complex computational solutions, visualization of natural processes and systems and imaginative and new forms of music and audio synthesis.
Music and Audio
The creation of music using computer technology is entering a new age of inspiration and collaboration being expressed in new forms of sound and music never before imagined. The integration of procedural applications such as Houdini or Processing into the composer’s toolkit enables new connections and avenues of experimentation and discovery. Digital Cinema Arts has been quite involved in the study of electronic and computer music and is always expanding on new techniques and applications of music and sonic synthesis.
Dynamic and Physical Simulations
When facilitating the simulation of physical phenomena such as fluids and gases or cloth and wire dynamics, the process and workflow often involve special considerations during design and implementation. In particular, these systems often process vast amounts of data, making it necessary to trace not only individual values and trends through an execution (cellular/automata data for example), but also gather higher-level information about how whole classes of data are processed, i.e, deformation, level set, density/pressure/temperature data. The data flow paths and code paths through a simulation system can be extremely complex and quite different for every variable in the system as well as for each algorithm expressed through the experiment. Our research and development has worked in many high performance computing environments where these kinds of performance requirements are required.
Bio-Tech and Medical Visualization
Medical research often involves the visualization of measurements and data that are unseen by the human eye. Using this data to form an image that conveys the condition and characteristics of the instrumentation data is essential for understanding the question posed in the experiment. Various forms of biological and organic processes can be simulated with algorithms derived from experimentation and applied in a virtual environment to run an experiment with additional dimensions of control and measurement. The tools we build for scientific visualization enables us to have a wide range of applications and approaches to any number of visualization tasks.
Space Sciences
Providing accurate information of data gathered from remote sensors and satellites gives investigating scientists visual representation and a deeper understanding of the experiment. Presenting the information accurately and with a visual ease to absorb its meaning helps to convey the intent of the investigator’s experiment and hypothesis.
Geological and Topological
Determining the characteristics and modeling the behavior of geological structures and evolution usually involves enormous amounts of data from diverse sources that need to be conveyed to investigating scientists in forms that are easily understood. Considering the very long time spans that some natural processes take, using computer simulations and visualization techniques can be crucial in proposing a hypotheses for a phenomena that could never occur in one’s lifetime. To assemble historic records and events from the past can be difficult to understand without an image or animation to convey the meaning of these findings.
Consulting and Production Services
Digital Cinema Arts offers a network of experienced technical directors, programmers, researchers and artists to provide a suite of services for the creation of visual imagery using a wide variety of computer graphics and simulation methods. The depth of experience covers a wide range of disciplines that is sometimes not always associated with the visual arts including numerous scientific and academic studies, having worked in film and visual effects, have taught courses.
Technical directors and software engineering
DCA technical directors and programmers have a long history of developing pipelines, production tools, visual effects and production, as well as other disciplines and fields of study.
On site production consultants
DCA production consultants offer consulting services in visual effects for film, games and commercials, as well as a wide range of scientific visualization applications and real world pipeline tool development and deployment.
Real time data acquisition and process control
We design and develop custom software and hardware components to interface and control laboratory instrumentation, human interface controllers, MIDI devices, actuators/motors/lights, virtually anything! Creating hardware solutions for real world applications in film, music, science, gaming is not as uncommon as one might think. DCA has the experience and resources to design remote sensing, real time data acquisition and processing systems for a variety of applications, science, electronics, physics and fabrication/manufacturing.
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