Myself and a partner at an advanced stage in applying for funding for an art installation. We’re proposing to build a room with three 16 foot/4.87 metre by 24 foot/7.31 metre walls receiving projected footage. We’re estimating that this will require six projectors to cover the total space.
We’re using Orbbec Femto Bolt cameras to read gesture and body positions of attendees, which will number around 10 at a time. We’re not 100% sure how many cameras we’ll need, I would think four in total.
The TouchDesigner project file will involve SOP instancing, although we’ll make use of Particles GPU and pre-recorded footage with optical flow to try to keep things on the GPU where possible. Broadly speaking, we’re looking to run a 8,640 x 1,920 image with interactivity such as optical flow and parameters being moved based on skeleton data from four different Azure Kinect CHOPs.
I don’t know if a single computer will be able to handle this or whether we’ll need multiple machines and/or a media server.
If there’s anyone with experience with larger installations that can recommend the rough specs for the machine/machines and whether we might need multiple TouchDesigner licenses to run this, that would be amazing! Let me know, thanks either way for reading.
TL:DR;
For a project file running an 8,640 x 1,920 image from 6 projectors while adjusting parameters via multiple Kinect Azure CHOPs, what kind of hardware is required? 2 PCs with RTX 4090? A media server? Multiple commercial Touchdesigner licenses or just one?
Any insights at all would be greatly appreciated!