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Mirror, Mirror
PSaltyDS writes "A friend forwarded this to me... don't know where he got it from. Daniel Rozin, Director Of Research and adjunct professor at ITP, Tisch School Of The Arts, NYU, and owner of SmoothWare Design, has built a Mirror-like display as an art project out of shiny balls. This seems to be a refinement of a 1999 Wooden Mirror project that is also pretty cool."
this is a pretty cool art project, good to see examples of technology creating art, or is that art creating technology
the things we can do with thousands of simple objects.
Posting a page on ./ that contains a link to a 17 MB .mov file... How long will it take for their server to die?
Nothing like trying to pop a zit in a mirror that looks like it's 2 DPI. On the flip side, when it hits the mirror, you REALLY know it.
-B
Thanks, thanks a hell of a lot, you bastards.
My gf walks into the room and I'm sitting here with a moz download dialog: "Saving 79% of shinyballs.mov"
I hope this guy's web server has a mirror or two
but it's funny how mechanical the description is- the details are more industrial then I had expected. the acutal sound of the machine gave me the first impression of nuematics in action- I"ve worked in the paste with several different nuematic systems and I honestly thought the activity of the balls represented a nuematic system also.
so, when will they create an 'over the bed' version of this?
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That took a lot of balls to create!
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Im thinking it might be nice to build a much higher res version of the wooden mirror with each woodchip being say 5mm^ so it really looks like a monochrome mirror. Instead of attaching 8 motors to each MCU, you can use a 32-bit MCU and address ALL the motors using the big addressing range and a fast multiplexer. That will allow minimization of the whole structure.
For the motors, the 'electronic muscle' available from jameco.com can be used for cheapicity and simplicity, again to increase the resolution rather than expensive motors.
Four of them can be lined against an elevator wall to seriously impress or scare patrons. Better still make one of them a mirror and display Evil Dead on the other three starting at 2 am. Make sure a hidden camera records the reactions.
Now I wanna make one.
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if you build more and have them face each other? Imagine ... ;)
heres a mirror (no pun intended)
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This display is cool, but practical applications are few and far between, right now. Probably we'll need a display like this. I can see it does have the advantage of keeping the last image it had if it were to lose power, but it prolly has lousy refresh and response times. It's e-ink!
Having an art-technology degree myself, I can say that this is some seriously cool art. I would like to see a show where there were a number of different materialed mirror machines.. cool! :)
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..has to be the total absolute ultimate whiz-bang pinnacle of lo-res graphics. Atari 400, eat your heart out!
The coolest voice ever.
its like deja vu all over again....
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This is an interesting application of current technology in facinating ways.
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I think we're getting to a point where advancements in technology itself will slow down, but the creativity behind it will fuel new inventions for years to come.
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His system has one motor per "pixel". To produce the grey scale, he has to treat each pixel as an axis of position control. the two ways this is usually done is with servo's can do this with position feedback on the load (ala model-airplane servos), or with steppers which can be more finicky, but requre no feedback sensor. In either case, it wasn't trivial to build all the "pixels" and then get them under control. I'll bet it wasn't cheap either.
... by their network: delivering up 18MB movie files and no discernable slashdot effect.
Mirrored display would be ideal for outdoors.
...you see the headline "Mirror, Mirror" and your first association is "sunsite, ibiblio"...
So... can it display a picture of evil Spock, with a moustache and a goatee?
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"and you can kiss my shiny metal spheroids"
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Way to totally miss the joke there
You can bite my shiny metal balls
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News for nerds, mmm shiney things for the rest of us
I want a hex-pod of those things. We could put people inside and drive them crazy with their own reflection - oh.. that already happens.
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Hits a little too close to home, if you know what I mean.
what chef would make of all these shiny unsalted balls
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This just isn't something that is communicated well over the web.
Over time, it tends to serve a function more like having a small waterfall in the room - it adds a sense of life.
At first when people see it, they do the usual thing of walking up to it and moving back and forth in front of it. (Dance! Dance!) The entertainment value in this is quite small and wears off quickly.
Yet when people stop looking at it and live with it there is still the background noise and movement which serves to soften the environment and make it feel more alive. I find this to be the most satisfying part of the piece.
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Why is this redundant?
I saw his Trash Mirror at the American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. Very cool installation, and a wonderful geek-friendly museum, worth the visit if your from or in NYC.
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It seems more organic, in its frame it looks almost like a piece of furniture. To me it looks like something you'd see in a wizard's study. Just from the movie the sound was neat, it must be amazing in real life.
Do you know where the wooden mirror is located?
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how similar these this site is the subject site.....
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
Because its a redundant mirror?
Ok, so it's not cutting edge stuff, but it sure does beat some of the dry, mundane applications we engineers use technology for on a daily basis.
On the other hand, engineers sometimes get more of an emotion from opening a control cabinet and seeing all the components neatly laid out, the wires nicely routed through ductwork, and little blinky LEDs. Not that I would, but...
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redundant seems a bit harsh ? moderators need to chill
Hmmm, that wooden mirror reminds me of the computer in Barbarella's spacechip.
This is nothing new- basically pinscreen animation (the first of which, Night on Bald Mountain, was made by inventor Alexander Alexeieff in 1933) with much larger "pixels", using chrome balls instead of pins, and much lower resolution. Actual pinscreen animations like Mindscape have a much higher resolution, and look almost like lithographs.
Of course, images on the pinscreen have to be manually "drawn" in using rollers & hand tools, which takes a considerable amount of time.
(IAAAM - I Am An Animation Major)
That's amazingly cool. It's a bit of a double mirror. It's reflective, and then you can point the image capture at you and have it shaped like you while you''re looking at the reflection of you in the balls. I wonder if we can figure out a way to get any more ways of mirroring involved there. What would happen if you pointed the camera at the mirror itself?
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here is a mirror
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Was I the only one reminded of the creepy flying eyeballs in the matrix with all the tenticles? No thank you I think we should destroy this asap.
... or are they already?
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or is the last picture on that link showing a guy flipping us off? It definitely looks like it!
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one the bus load of girls just went down.
There seems to be a stuck pixel in the demo video.
I would check the return policy on this thing before looking into buying one....
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Warning to younger viewers. This site features a 2-3 minute movie of an individual playing with his balls.
I'd like to have one in my office and hook it into a vcr with a tape of some preset images, or into a keyboard (musical type). A keyboard reminds me of "Close Encounters".
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...what's the refresh rate on that thing?
Will I be able to run Quake3 at a decent fps?
Dammit they should know to post important info like this...and no dammit I'm not going to rtfa.
I prefer the blind guardian song
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Artists with a bent for electronics and physics are rare. Or is it the other way around? I wonder what he could do with small prisms?
The mirror ball display looks imaginative and geek cool. But, I really enjoyed the link to the Wooden display. It looks like a scaled up version of the Texas Instruments DLP micro mirror chip, currently used in high resolution digital cinema display projectors.
It's a great twist to see technology scaled up from the micromechanical to the macro world, instead of the other way around.
The sound seems more pleasing, and the resolution seems higher somehow.
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