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Control Lightshow Over Dublin Sky From A Webpage

Posted by Hemos on from the fun-with-CGI dept.

nev4 writes "Ireland is celebrating their EU presidency for 2004 with an interactive lightshow over Dublin. The project, Vectorial Elevation, allows people to control the 22 searchlights (154,000 watts, can be seen for a 15km radius) shining over Dublin by submitting a design on the project's website. The designs are queued and a new design is displayed every 14 seconds from dusk to dawn (GMT +1). You can see an aerial view of the city and the current design via live webcam or browse snapshots of previous designs. The tool for submitting deisgns also contains a 3D model of the city that you can pan around or "walk-through". Once you submit your design, you can opt to receive an e-mail when it is being displayed; when I submitted mine there was no one in the queue, so it was displayed immediately."

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  1. In other news... by jwitch · · Score: 5, Informative
    People who do not RTFA would notice it would be extremely hard to represent a picture using only 22 uniformly fixed searchlights.

    This week's crossword puzzle prize is a brand new set of crayons.

  2. Im in Dublin .. by Fawad · · Score: 5, Informative

    And I can say they're pretty amazing - the range is much more than 15km (I saw them visiting a friend from Leixlip over 25km away). They make this city beautiful - The messages were uncensored initially, but then the authorities smartned up - to an extent! :) Try submitting something in a different language..

  3. Campaign for Dark Skies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is not a pleasant sight if you are interested in preserving the night sky.

    Once again the environment suffers to satisfy the vanity of politicians.

    The night sky should be dark as this allows wildlife to not be disturbed, we save energy reducing CO2 emmissions and the next generation of kids might just get interested in astronomy and science in general.

    http://www.dark-skies.org/

    Aside from this - yes of course its pretty - but I'd like it to be limited up to 12 midnight, and only use sodium light which can be filtered out.

    Clear dark and steady skies

    Torcuill
    www.aberdeenastro.btinternet.co.uk

  4. Great Project by bjpirt · · Score: 3, Informative

    Another version of the original which took place in Mexico for the millennium by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

    This guy does get up to some really interesting stuff.

  5. Speer by Quila · · Score: 3, Informative

    Too bad Albert Speer isn't still alive. He knew how to arrange a searchlight light show!