Students from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, as part of a university project and later in the framework of their thesis, successfully restored Bálint István’s legendary rotary disc-based 3D projection device, which was considered state-of-the-art in its time.
Students from Budapest University of Technology and Economics successfully restored Bálint István’s legendary rotary disc-based 3D projection device as part of a university project and later in the framework of their thesis. The stereo projection device, last operational in 1935, became functional again in December 2020, allowing Bálint István’s vintage 3D recordings to come to life. Balázs Jakus and Soma Horváth, as part of the university project assigned by the Department of Mechatronics, Optics, and Mechanical Engineering Informatics (MOGI, http://www.mogi.bme.hu/), initiated the restoration of the device in the laboratory and workshop of OMI OPTIKA Engineering Office Ltd., the organization that proposed the project theme, in the spring of 2020 (supervisor: Dr. G. Szabó István, CEO). Balázs continued and completed the revival of the apparatus within the framework of his thesis.
