This robot is a remote controlled toy. The robot is used to pilot a Mylar balloon which takes the form of animals including fish, sharks, and other sea animals. They give the illusion of swimming or floating through the air. The weightlessness of these balloons also gives off the illusion of flying.
The Paro robots are commercially produced robots that look like cute baby seals designed to comfort patients in hospitals and nursing homes. They are equipped with light, touch, temperature, and sound sensors and even have the ability to learn when they are given a name.
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Here a fleet of quadrocopters with LED lights attached to them take to the skies flying in formation. These flying pixels of light form patterns and animations in the night sky, creating 3-D models in seemingly empty space.
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Push is a very entertaining, approachable robot who rolls around the Disney World parks talking to guests. He is voiced and controlled remotely in real time, and his mechanical/electrical workings have been very well disguised.
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For this project our group took three projectors out to Schenley Plaza and projected kaleidoscopic images of marbles onto the tent.
Our original intent was to project onto a large snowball, but we chose to use the tent instead in the interest of modifying an already existing structure instead of creating a sculptural piece. Our main goal was to transform the space and project interesting geometric visuals and we found that the tent was a good, smooth surface without any patterns on its surface to disrupt the projection.
Our piece was well received by passers-by. It was very cold that night so not many people were walking around, but a group of Korean college students came by and asked us about it. They watched for a few minutes before going on their way. A few other people also walked past and gave us shy but curious looks.
When we were satisfied with our work with the tent we turned our projectors to the giant snowball we had started making two weeks prior. This was simply out of curiosity for how it would look and we were satisfied with the results. We agree that it would have had far more impact if we had been able to make it bigger.
We were surprised when at this point a man walking by walked up to us and asked if he could take a picture. We invited him over and took his picture next to the snowball. His English was a bit difficult to understand but he seemed pleased and went on his way. It is possible that the snowball being smaller and closer to the ground than the tent made it more accessible to him as the audience, and so he initiated an interaction.
We were very glad that we had decided to use three projectors, because if we did not have that many it would have been impossible to see the images with all the ambient light in the area. Prior to this attempt we had run into problems with our inverter and one of our tripods,but thankfully we were able to resolve those issues and get good results.
Here is the video we projected:
“News Puff”
Purpose:
We will project clips of the corporate news media onto smoke escaping from the Cloud Factory. The amorphous quality of the smoke will challenge the fixed, clearly-defined and over-simplified truths that the corporate news media attempts to convey.
Out in the field:
We originally tried the Cloud Factory next to the Carnegie Library, but we soon learned the limitations of our projector.
This piece was created in November 2010 to commemorate the opening of H&M’s new flagship store in Amsterdam. The building is transformed into a colorful dollhouse through 3D projection mapping.
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This projection was produced to advertise the launch of Samsung’s new 3D TV in Amsterdam.
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This project was created for the 2010 Fête des Lumières festival in Lyon, France. The piece is interactive with the projected face mimicking sounds made by an audience member.
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This projection was created for the 2010 New Year’s Eve celebration in the city of Sugarland, Texas. Anema Solutions is a 3D multimedia company founded in 2009 specializing in animation.
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