| allkingmen | 29 Dec 2008 6:19 p.m. PST |
Here are two rugs that take a bird's eye view. The Carpet Rug (the name might need a little work) is a series of different-colored ployurethane columns that viewed from standing-height appear to form a relief landscape. Seyed Alavi's Flying Carpet – which you can see at Sacramento Airport – foregoes suggestion in favor of reality. Walk the length of it, and you "fly" the length of the Sacramento River in aerial photography. preview.tinyurl.com/7wswgd gizmag.com/go/4219 |
 Condotta  | 29 Dec 2008 7:47 p.m. PST |
OK, now ALL other game mats are obsolescent. The article says costs are prohibitive for home use but costs are coming down. So, I just need to convince a tee-shirt company to do a little larger project. Maybe Seewarstore can do table size prints.  |
| Condotta | 29 Dec 2008 7:50 p.m. PST |
BTW, nice post, allkingmen, thanks for sharing. 90 hits currently on this post and not one word from anyone until now? At least leave your card on the silver tray in the foyer. Previous message received some strange error message and then duplicated, so deleted the first duplicate. |
Pat Ripley  | 29 Dec 2008 8:08 p.m. PST |
now if they can just use hexagonal columns… |
| Top Gun Ace | 29 Dec 2008 8:13 p.m. PST |
I want several. They look simply superb. Of course, I will need one of the universe too, for Full Thrust games. I imagine it would look very nice in the living room, but people might suffer from a bit of vertigo at first. |
 Parzival | 29 Dec 2008 8:32 p.m. PST |
The first is fun, but the second is amazing. |
| T Callahan | 29 Dec 2008 9:07 p.m. PST |
A WWII micro miniatures wargame on the airport carpet would be very cool. Can anyone say a Bridge to Far? Terry |
| Top Gun Ace | 29 Dec 2008 10:08 p.m. PST |
Would be great for the Normandy landings too, and/or bombing raids over Europe. |
| RJ Andron | 29 Dec 2008 11:46 p.m. PST |
Looks interesting, but regarding the second one, couldn't you take a digital aerial or sat photo into Wal-Mart's photo centre to have a digital image printed onto a blanket? |
| Bob the Temple Builder | 30 Dec 2008 6:09 a.m. PST |
I have seen something similar using ariel recce photos but never anything as impressive as this. Considering how cheaply printing in colour is now becoming it can only be a matter of time before this sort of this is available for gamers to use. |
| nycjadie | 30 Dec 2008 7:05 a.m. PST |
I bet it could be printed on that large-scale vinyl stuff they use for advertising pretty easily (but not cheaply). |
| Inari7 | 30 Dec 2008 8:30 a.m. PST |
I have seen the future of game matts, and it looks darn cool! Thanks for sharing. …………..Doug |
| Timmo uk | 13 Jan 2009 2:52 p.m. PST |
About ten years ago I worked with an American company based in UK who had the technology to do this quite easily. I visited their plant and they were quite literally printing using technology not unlike your desktop ink jet onto carpet. The ink cartridges were drums of colour and the carpet was a huge white roll. From memory anywhere between 5 and 10 feet wide and about 100' long. It was amazing… Perhaps it might happen one day till then there's always Hotz. |
