DESIGN NAME: Wavelet
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Interactive Installation
INSPIRATION: Water forms part of everyone’s childhood memory, whether its swimming in the ocean, paddling in the pool, dipping in the lake or horsing around with a hose pipe. Water can take any shape and reacts immediately to any external force; perhaps the unpredictable nature of water is what intrigues people to play with it, what causes children to spend an afternoon of excitement under its spell. Truly, in water nature has designed an incomparably ingenious medium of interaction.
Everything and everyone of us is interconnected in a myriad of ways: people with other people and all of us with the environment. Life is comparable to an expanding ripple across the water. The choices we make have far-reaching consequences. Each of us carries the capacity to change the world in small ways for better or worse. If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. Wavelet is creates an unforgettable experience and turns audiences into participants and co-creators.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Wavelet is an interactive light installation created by Geeksart New Media Art Group. It uses the changing light to mimic the flowing water. Wavelet is composed of 1,300 light-responsive light bulbs. Each light bulb is designed in an arc shape, which gives the light wave a distinct direction.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: When any of the light bulbs detect a change in colour or light, it displays the colour accordingly. When any of of the lights are turned on, the adjacent light bulbs react to the light change and the light waves automatically expand out to the very edge of the installation. From a single source of light, waves spread out like a series of dominoes. The random variable patterns created give a pleasant surprise to the audience.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The installation was exhibited in WUJIE · International New Media & Art Exhibition in December 2017.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Fine Arts and Art Installation Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Each of the teardrop-shaped light bulbs is embedded with custom-made electronics that detect and react to changes in light and colour. When any of the light bulbs detect a change in colour or light, it displays the colour accordingly. When any of of the lights are turned on, the adjacent light bulbs react to the light change and the light waves automatically expand out to the very edge of the installation. From a single source of light, waves spread out like a series of dominoes. The random variable patterns created give a pleasant surprise to the audience.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: Dimensions:11140 x 3000 x 1145 mm
Weight:300kg
Surface:PMMA
Structure:Aluminum
Tech:Custom made light responsive microchip
TAGS: Interactive,Installation,Art,Wavel
et,Light,GeeksArt
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: -
CHALLENGE: In the process of R&D , the key challenge to tackle is to achieve accurate color recognition and light detection under the natural light setting. The senor detects the color of the target light source,however, it also detects the wavelength of the ambient light. With the interference of the ambient light, the RGB reading will be inaccurate due to the overlapped wavelength. In order to extract the precise RGB value of the target light source, thousands of simulations have been runned in order to get iterations of the color recognition algorithm.
ADDED DATE: 2018-05-02 08:27:12
TEAM MEMBERS (1) : GeeksArt
IMAGE CREDITS: GeeksArt, 2018.
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