However, I was much more impressed by a product from the German company Woehburk, especially their Cristalline, glass projection screen. I thought that it showed a brighter image than the other products, with better contrast and color. Perhaps I was charmed by the small scale, as I wanted to design some kind of suspended 'chandelier' type array of small glass projection screens. I really like the way that the image is only visible from one side, which makes it appear quite magically, if you're just passing by...

In this video I compare three different Woehburk screens and then compare my favorite with an opaque rear projection sample from 3M's Vicuity range.

I've been meaning to post these videos for months, but just never got round to it...

Late last year, I was immensely flattered when John Reaves, Alyce Dissette and Hal Eagar asked me if I would be interested in collaborating with photographer Janet Sternburg in creating a multimedia exhibit for the Seoul Institute of the Arts.  Of course I said yes, and by January 2009, I was getting deep into design research.

As part of this process I tried to identify a good transparent projection screen.  In the end we didn't go with this kind of projection design, however, without going into too much detail about why, here's some rough video tests I did.  Apologies for the shaky handheld camera (I was in a rush, and working by myself), but hopefully these videos might be a resource for someone else doing similar research.  

This one shows tests with an acrylic screen made by Da-Lite.  I wasn't too impressed with this one... Low contrast, and didn't deal with ambient light very well. This product definitely wasn't going to be good enough to show Janet's photography on...
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