Title: Volu-Me Fan: Turn Your Layered-fan into a Volumetric Display

Main Contributor: Hidetaka Katsuyama

Abstract

This paper proposes Volu-Me, which displays multi-layer images by projecting onto a layered-fan rotating at high speed. In this system, each propeller part of the fan is projected by a high-speed projector. The rotation of the fan is measured by a sensor, and the projected image is generated in accordance with the rotation of the propeller section, which makes the system applicable to any fan. This system enables users to observe 3D layered images without wearing special equipment, and multiple users can observe at the same time. In this paper, we implement the prototype of the system and show the results of the projections, and discuss the potential and future extension of the system.

Citarion format

  1. H. Katsuyama, S. Miyafuji and H. Koike, “Spatially-unconstrained 3D Display: Dynamic Projection Mapping on Manipulable Rotating Objects,” 2025 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), Saint Malo, France, 2025, pp. 807-809, doi: 10.1109/VRW66409.2025.00164

  2. Hidetaka Katsuyama, Shio Miyafuji, and Hideki Koike. 2024. DiskPlay: Dynamic Projection Mapping on Rotating Platforms for Extended Holographic Display. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Posters (SA ‘24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 29, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1145/3681756.3697888

  3. Hidetaka Katsuyama, Shio Miyafuji, Arisa Kohtani, and Hideki Koike. 2023. Volu-Me Fan: Turn Your Layered-fan into a Volumetric Display. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI ‘23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 39, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3607822.3618006