A GIANT flower designed to light up by catching energy from the wind will soon shine as a beacon on the new look Widnes Waterfront. Plans to build a 50ft high illuminated flower out of galvanised metal, with 120 petals were approved by Halton councillors on Monday evening. Architect Anna Liu, aged 43, who won [...]
To create this new work, Villareal integrated physicist Issac Newton’s Laws of Motion into his own computer code, augmenting his earlier explorations of rule-based cellular automata programs that were inspired by mathematician John Conway’s Game of Life. By applying principles of physics, the artist has increased the complexity of his simulated worlds. As the elements [...]
Janet Cooke Hansen is President and Chief Fashion Engineer of Enlighted Designs, Inc. that create an excellent line of hats under the name EFHED. She founded the business to create her own “dream job” as a light-up clothing designer. Janet’s eclectic designs combine her lifelong interests of fashion,art, and technology. She learned to sew at [...]
The BRC is the world’s largest 3-dimensional full color dynamiclight sculpture. It is an array of lights 40 feet in diameter and 10 feet high. It consists of 28 spokes, each of which is 24 lights wide by 9 lights high. Each light is independently controllable to display any color and brightness level and the [...]
Tenori-On is great LED based novel personal digital instrument for playing sound and ambient light patterns developed by Toshio Iwai. It is operated by touching 16×16 LED switches. You could think of them as musical keyboards that respond to the subtlety of your finger touch by emitting light waves, creating afterglow, and making soothing sound [...]
LoopScape, by Ryota Kuwakubo, is a game for 2 players with wireless controllers. It is a very classic shooting game. But instead of battling on a flat screen, you have to run around the cylindrical LED screen to follow your spaceship. Another consequence of having a 360° is that once your missile is fired, it [...]