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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. What they are going to see over the sky now by eclectro · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    First Post!

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  2. SHUT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    OMG !!! Don't give them ideas!!!

    Now countless civilians will be scarred for life and will declare unceasing war on the website Slashdot for creating such a horrible debacle!

  3. Re:My message in the sky would be: by pubjames · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Vote No to European Constitution

    Let me guess - you're British!

    Personally I think the rest of Europe should have a vote to chuck Britain out of the EU. Britain just holds the rest of the EU back.

  4. Roger, wilko, over and out by Linker3000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There's no fscking way I'm flying Ryanair into Dublin for the forseeable future then! Dive Dive Dive.

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  5. fucking moderators by boarder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How in the fuck can that last message be modded Overrated when IT WAS NEVER RATED IN THE FIRST PLACE?!

    Then it got modded Offtopic?! It's completely Ontopic! You can submit a message/picture to be displayed by the lights during the show, and I posted what I wanted displayed. How in the fuck is that Offtopic? And how can a negatively modded post be Overrated?

    Maybe it wasn't funny, but I shouldn't get punished for that. Hopefully those fucktard mods will get smacked down in metamoderation and their points taken away (if that is even how things work).

    Asshats.

    P.S.
    THIS post is offtopic, but it isn't overrated. The parent post was neither offtopic nor overrated.

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