Friday, February 26, 2010
Telerobotic searchlight art installation
Boing Boing: "Vectorial Elevation is a telerobotic art installation in Vancouver, Canada that enables you to aim 20 searchlights around the English Bay via the Web. Four cameras around the city then photograph your design and the system creates a Web page for it."
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This is a really cool thing. I went to their website and tried to program it and it allowed me to program it. The site works extremely well and is easy to program. The second screen lets you see what it will look like in the space. However,when I went to submit my design the program said that it was corrupt and could not be processed. It seems like the site was overloaded with too may people and it is extremely slow. I hope that they continue to do this for longer, not just until the end of the month. It is an extremely cool project and I hope that we will see more projects like this in the future.
This is sort of totally awesome. If you look at the line flow diagram, you and see its just a proprietary software that spits out DMX to these big searchlights -- they are probably BigLites or Falcons or something of the sort. This is one of the more interesting interactive things I've seen in a while, mostly for its simplicity and ease of access by the public. It doesn't require a degree in lighting design to get this thing to do exactly what you wanted. Granted, the options are sort of limited, but still, a pretty cool way to have a mass group of people get involved in something. I'd like to see a time lapse, to see what kind of patterns, or lack there of, exist in our collective brain.
Ths is a amazingly cool idea! I like the idea of being able to visibly change your environment for a visually artistic purpose. I like the use of lights in conjunction with the buildings around it to make beautiful pieces of art.
Ah, yes, real world applications of fascinating new lighting technologies. This reminds me a lot of what Cindy was telling me about the Randy Pausch bridge when it was first being developed--that there were going to be programmers dedicated to making a user interface allowing them to create their own light show on the bridge.
I would love to get my hands on this software and see just how well you can manipulate the lights and interact with the space given to you. The sort of pseudo-architectural lighting that this is being used for is something I've never tried my hand at, and I'd love to be able to do it in real time, see the results, and yet never have anyone know that I had tried it.
I think that the concept behind this project is fantastic. Giving anyone the opportunity to create a momentary piece of art and then giving them a copy to see their own work is great. I think that projects such as this help encourage people to engage themselves in the arts and show them that they are capable of creating something huge and creative as a searchlight design in the sky. However, I do agree with the author of this article that it's sad that people will have to wait for hours online to do this, which would eventually discourage many people from actually completing the project. Still, I like the concept and I hope there can be more projects like this in the future.
This is pretty nifty, I feel that it's kind of along the lines of Guitar Hero. The fact that it sort of vicariously lets people do things that would normally take a longer time to do. Some people mighty enjoy just programming these lights but may not have the credentials that are needed in order to actually do something like this on such a large scale. Also, the fact that its relatively simple to use allows a larger variety of people to use it.
This sounds like a really neat project. To assemble that much gear, interconnect it all, and then open it up to public use seems like a cool mission. I think most folks don't see lighting design as something they could just explore - it required so much overhead and space; so a project like this accomplishes establishing it as more of an art and less of a technical field - and also exposing many folks to a little taste of it which they would otherwise never accomplish. Art like this, which aims to include as many, not as few, creators as possible seems like a positive influence on the field.
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