Geekosystem: It seems that Zod’s plan to turn Earth into Krypton in Man of Steel wasn’t entirely unsuccessful, as this year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi will have a building-size version of the pin art face displays used by the Kryptonians. They’re calling it MegaFace. Yeah, they pretty much named it after Megatron. Get your references straight, Russia.
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I really like the idea behind this project, to give everyone a chance to be the "face" of the olympics. The design itself also looks really cool. The idea of a pin-screen is something I've never really heard of before. It reminds me of the kids toys that work very similarly where you push it onto an object, or your face, and it pushes pins up to form a picture of whatever you are putting it on. Hopefully this idea actually works and doesn't run into problems like the olympic torches did.
Ok, not lying, when I was in architecture, I designed a building exactly like this. The building's facade was an interactive media wall that worked somewhat like a pinscreen except used motion and heat to create patterns and images. For my presentation I used the kinect to show how media can caputre images and then render them into a 3D image. I think it is AMAZING that they are making a building like this for the olympics. It goes to show that the olympics are not only a place for sports but also a place to exhibit technological and cultural innovations. I wish I could go to Sochi and see my face on this wall.
Articles like this are just so cool. It's fascinating to see where technology is headed and where it is already. Similar to what Philip said, I too am not very familiar with the whole "pin-screen" concept but from what they've suggested in the article it sounds like a very interesting piece of equipment. Surely loaded with millions of dollars worth of motors and computers, this screen with give a unique spin on the image of the olympics and how we perceive those who are attending.
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