CHROMAesthesiae is an installation by SOFTlab at the Devotion gallery in New York. It’s made of laser cut photo glossy ink jet paper and every panel has a unique color gradient. They’ve choosen for very simple technique to build the funnels: binder clips. Colorful!
found at designboom weblog
Sticky Light is a project by Alvaro Cassinelli, Kuribara Yusaku and Stephane Perrin of the Department of Information Physics and Computing at the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory of the university of Tokyo. Indeed, this should already spark you interest.
Sticky Light is a 3d tracking technology using a laser diode (low power), a pair of steering mirrors and a single non-imaging photodetector. The big difference to other tracking technologies is the fact that the Sticky Light doesn’t use a camera or projector. So what could you do with? It can track the contour of objects and even augment real-time drawings. Or you could build games like air hockey or a pinball game. Or … just watch this video, after 2 minutes they show you the games demo.
Daito Manabe visited the lab recently and added some functionality to the system: sound. soundLight can now generate sounds based on the movement of the laser.
found @daitomanabe
“Syn Chron” is an installation designed by Carsten Nikolai back in 2004. He wanted to create an integral sculpture of light, sound and architecture. The crystal-shaped object has a translucent skin on which lasers beam animations insync to the sounds. You can also go inside the object to get the whole light, sound and space experience. Indeed it’s that big.
Gestalten.TV has a video where Carsten Nikolai talks about his work, more precisely about grids and his book Grid Index. You can watch it here.
This new music video for ‘House of Cards’ by Radiohead is quite different. This video wasn’t shot with video cameras or even lights, but with a laser device and some sort of scanner which delivered 3D data.
Two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.
So far so good, the cool thing is that is an open source project on Google Code. Even the 3D data was composited with Processing, an open source programming language and environment, to make the final video. You can also download that data and make your own remix and submit it to the YouTube ‘House of Cards’ group. Here is an interactive Flash 3D data visualisation to get you excited.
Here is the making of video:
This is the Diamond Chair by Nendo. On the first picture you can see a step in the production process, indeed it’s a rapid prototyping technique called selective laser sintering. It’s very similar to the 3D printing that Front Design used for their Sketch Furniture.
Unfortunately this technology isn’t ready for mass production yet, it takes 5 to 6 days just to print 1 chair.
More info and images at dezeen.
I can’t guarantee you that this will be the last post about Hussein Chalayan latest crystal-layer-dress. Swarovski Sparkles TV just posted the making of. Worth watching!
So here is the deal with the Hussein Chalayan spring / summer 2008 show. There was no live catwalk last night in Paris, they just screened the film that I’ve posted this morning. Of course Moritz Waldemeyer was part of the whole project and he was resposible for the dresses with hunderds of servo motor driven lasers. These lasers are integrated in the garments, illuminating the Swarovski crystals and extending the dresses visually into space.
Yesterday evening was the spring/summer 2008 fashion show of Hussein Chalayan in Paris. Of course I’m quite curious what he came up with this time … just remember his mechanical dress or his LED dress. SHOWstudio did a video shoot of his current collection: Readings, at the end there’s a small preview of his newest ‘technology’. Hopefully there will more online soon.
Realfakewatches is a project by Linda Kostowsk, she and other designers designed wristwatches that work only 1 minute a day. They are laser cut from genuine leather and come with both a unique time and a thinglink engraved on the back.
7 Laserdeck is project by Refill Magazine. They invited artists to design a skateboard deck with laser technology, I posted the one by Build a few days ago. It seems that laser design is on it’s way up!
Refill uploaded a lot of images of the project to flickr, the details are amazing. I want a laser machine!
