The Hello Wall is an installation made by Hellicar&Lewis for Wasted Spaces. You can communicate with with it via Twitter. It knows commands like circle, square, rectangle, triangle, shake, faster, slower, bigger, smaller and colors…
Research project UC Berkeley, department of electrical engineering and computer sciences. “While the laser scanners map a building’s interior, the backpack’s cameras simultaneously take photographs as the wearer walks through the environment. Then, the photographs are mapped onto the 3D model created from the scans to make it “photorealistic,” Zakhor said.”
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“‘Lightrails’ is a light sculpture with the intention to re-define and re-interpret the exhibition room. An easy but effective mapping technique was used to create seamless projections on both sides of the object. Light-beams were triggered by the visitors and ran through the room, following the surface created by the sculpture. Each ‘reflection’ of the light-beam was accompanied by sound. The speed and brightness of the beam was directly influenced by the force the visitors used when triggering the beam stepping on pedals on the floor. This also influenced the volume of the sound-effects. The audio signal was played back on a surround sound system that allowed a spatial positioning of the sounds and created a truly immersive experience.” It’s made by Strukt Design Studio…
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I love the way Katrin Baumgarten has given these on/off objects an almost emotional expression…
