In the highest of high definition, a multi-monitor display will soon grace the atrium of the Donnelley and Lee Library. A single HD TV screen of the same total size would typically have a resolution of 1280 x 720, whereas this new LIT creation has a resolution of 2560 x 2048.
Hisham Petry, Senior Network Administrator, replicated similar displays that he had seen on other campuses. He envisions the assembly as a medium to exhibit student art work. A single image spans four monitors, moving in a circular pattern so that the divisions between the four 19-inch monitors do not break up any part of the picture for more than a moment.
In addition to being used to display digital student art, the multi-monitor display will be used to provide information about campus events and about new technologies in the Library. Content for the display will be provided through Leadership and Community Involvement (x5210).
The multi-monitor display is currently undergoing beta testing Hisham Petry and Esteban Reyes’s office in Room 026 of the library.