TL;DR: I modified an adaptor plate from someone on UKGSer and I’m sharing my adventure. If you want to make yours you can download the DWF files so you can cut a piece of steel and mount it on your bike.

Long version:

A Couple of months ago I purchased the Holan pannier racks adaptors for my R1150GSA. With these I could mount R1200gsa OEM Aluminum panniers on my R1150GSA :).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Still, there was no option for an adaptor plate to the top case unfortunately… Luckily! In UKGSer forums there is this great guy called Garry (cbrgaz) that designed an adaptor plate for the R1150GS long time ago. I contacted him and he was really kind to send me his DWF file so I could get started!. Upon receiving it the very first thing I did was visualize it and here’s how it looks:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great!, So with some Fusion 360 playing, I bent the corners as shown in the diagram and proceeded to 3D print the part. This is the result:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It fits perfectly, unfortunately I wanted to have a pocket between the plate and the top case rack to be able to fit 1qt of oil. So I modified the design slightly and came up with this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As one can notice, its pretty much the same; I just modified the lengths of the edges. With this the modifications ended up looking like this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pretty much what I was wanting; a small cavity to place my quart of oil with a box that I plan to make in the future. Anyways, after this the process was pretty much straight forward. I purchased a 1x2ft 316 stainless steel plate and sent it to get cut with water jet:

After that, I bent the corners and was pretty much done! 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That’s pretty much! I’m really happy with the outcome and even happier that now I can have a place for the engine oil!.

If you are interested in doing this you can find . Garry’s original file here or my modified design that has a pocket for the quart of oil here.

 

 

UPDATE:

 

First of all, Thanks to Richard Evans for sharing these pictures.

Be careful where you do the bending as you could basically make your part unusable. Its important to have the bends done exactly where the lines are marked for it to work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If possible 3D print the part first or cut a piece of cardboard with it to test first where the bends are going so you avoid ending up with scrap material. I’m attaching here some pictures on how incorrect bending would not let you attach the carrier (Thanks Richard).

 

TL;DR: Different ways have been attempted to generate multiple images from the same display for different users across the years. In this post I wrote about six categories that try to multiplex imagery from the same display and if the reader is interested a paper on the state of the art on different ways for multiplexing images up to 2018 is shared at the end (or also grab it here).

 

This topic is part of my PhD thesis and I have been wanting to write about this for the past few weeks so people in general can understand what I am working on without too much technicalities.

The core idea of my thesis is to be able to show different images to different users in the same display. As simple as it sounds. One could naively argue, “Well Juan, that already exists, TVs nowadays offer to split the screen so I can watch a channel while my friends watch other things  at the same time.” Which I can reply to you. Well, yes… But the idea is to display images from the same display without other users being able to see the other user’s views. Like person A being able to watch discovery channel on the TV while person B at the same time is watching something else on  Netflix without each other being able to see what the other person is watching.

Another question that one can ask could be: Why would this be important?, why would people care?. Turns out that a really bright person in a paper (Pollock[1]) found that collaboration times get significantly increased when users are at different locations vs center of perception. This means when people are trying to work in groups looking at screen in 3D when they cannot perceive 3D images crafted with correct perspective depending on where they are relative to the screen; collaborations get significantly longer and perspective distortions prevent precise collaboration scenarios.

Ok Juan, but  Where would this be useful? This is also another good question; Pretty much everything that involves collaboration and screen projected VR (Yes VR is not only Head mounted displays) :). Some examples could be surgery simulation training, Mechanical design, general teaching, training and pretty much everything that involves collaborative object manipulation / discussion.

Pretty much what the PhD thesis aims to do is when different people point certain parts of a 3D object, they point to different places in the physical space. In other words;  what I want is several people coincide in the physical space when pointing to things.

With this, collaborative scenarios would result in correct perspective views for each of the participants like this: (And yes, you could eventually watch Netflix and different other things at the same time  with this ;)).

So  the design challenge lays on “How can we create a system that displays multiple images in a common area occluding all but the appropriate image for each user?”.

Sounds like magic, right? Well… Turns out this has been researched for long time and there have been several attempts that try to achieve this. Another bright researcher in another paper (Bolas[2]) proposes four categories for generating multiple images from the same screen for different users. These categories are based on the approach used for generating images and are: Spatial barriers, Optical Routing, Optical Filtering and Time Multiplexing. additionally to these categories I think is worth adding volumetric displays and light field displays.

 

Spatial Barriers.

Pretty much they use the display’s physical configuration and user placement in advantage to generate specific views. Depending on the approach used, brightness is reduced as a result of the physical barriers, resolution also can be affected due to generating images in the same screen.

Some examples of this approach are the use of parallax barriers, the Protein interactive Theater[3] or the illusion Hole[4,5] among other projects:

 

Optical Routing:

This approach uses angle sensitive optical characteristics of certain materials to direct or occlude images based on the viewer’s position, color Banding, lose of resolution, moiré patterns, are some of the challenges of this approach.

Pretty much everything that routes light follows this approach; some examples include lenticular lenses (like the cards that used to come on cereal boxes that you flip and display different images), holographic screen materials that reflect light depending on where users are, etc.

Optical Filtering:

This category involves systems that filter viewpoints using light’s electromagnetic properties. The most common used devices for this category are polarization filters (like the 3D glasses for viewing 3D movies), anaglyph filters, etc. Pretty much anything that filters light or manipulates light’s wavelength. Brightness reduction, color washing/loss are some of the problems associated with this approach.

Time Multiplex:

This category encompasses solutions that use time sequenced light and shutters to determine which users sees an image at a given point in time. Brightness reduction, flickering, crosstalk, hight refresh rates requirements are some of the challenges of this approach. Normally this approach involves highly custom circuitry for syncing shutters and high refresh systems to allow image multiplexing.

One of the most prominent projects are Bernd Froehlich’s[11,12] multi-viewer stereo displays; here he uses a projector per eye for each user and with shutter glasses and shuttered projectors he sequences between users to generate 3D views and separate users.

 

 

 

Volumetric Displays:

In volumetric displays. the image is produced within a volume of space. This content is always confined within the physical device enclosure. normally imagery is displayed  with spinning mirrors, screens, translucent discs, stacked LEDs on a grid etc. Resolution is one of the biggest drawbacks and the volumetric content normally is not possible to interact directly but with virtual wands.

On the bright side, the content can be seen from any point of view and there is no need for special glasses to be used to perceive the rendered images.

Light field Displays:

Finally, in light field displays; the light emitted from a point on screen varies with the direction hence the generation of different views. Without going into too much detail; this is an active area of research, unfortunately there are no solutions out of the box and mostly everything is made from scratch; there is a small field of view (~10deg) from where the users can see and processing times to generate frames are prohibitive for realtime rendering.

Which approach is better?

No approach is better than other. Depending on the needs of your project, one approach would work better than other; one thing to not is that hybrid approaches try to exploit the best from different techniques and are commonly used to either generate stereoscopy or increase the number of users.

Parallax methods face challenges regarding brightness (with some exceptions) Optical routing approaches still pose some drawbacks that can be solved with today’s technology with increased resolution on displays among others. Optical filtering approaches on the other hand are very limited by the nature of their filters for separating users and also brightness is another factor that gets affected. Time multiplexing is an interesting technique that with fast enough refresh rates can increase number of views, still added synchronization, custom circuitry and shuttering nature of the approach poses new challenges to be solved like brightness and flickering among others.

Volumetric displays have challenges of resolution and occlusion. Unfortunately with the nature of the displays, users cannot pinpoint inside the rendered volume. Finally, Light field displays is an active area of research. One of the biggest challenges this approach faces is that there are not out of the box solutions to work on. Long processing times for generating frames, reduced viewing angles also offer a lot of room for research.

If you managed to read up until here and you are still interested on the state of the art up to 2018 on multi user displays, feel free to read this paper that I published in Electronic Imaging 2019 in the Stereoscopic Displays & Applications conference (SD&A http://www.stereoscopic.org/)

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