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Control Lightshow Over Dublin Sky From A Webpage
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."
...and you have the first lifesize Missile Commander game.
No way this will abused at all... I look forward to seeing goatse in all its glory displayed over Dublin.
Residents of Ireland reported seeing lights representing penises and men bending over with apparent gaping holes in the rear over the skies of Dublin. More on this as it becomes available.
The local In-House Astronomer at Univ of Dublin must love this thing...
"We are celebrating our EU presidency for 2004, and all we got is our web cam Slashdotted."
Poor fellows.So if you would stop pointing it at my flat, that would be appreciated.
An annoyed Dublin resident.
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This week's crossword puzzle prize is a brand new set of crayons.
Can I project my phone number so whole legions hot irish girls will call me, wanting hot passion?
Hate me!
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..
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
Can somebody say Bat-signal?
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Wait until the spammers find out. Then you'll see on the sky:
MAKE MONEY FAST!
URGENT BUISNESS PROPOSAL
Buy \/IAGRA!
And the next spam message will not say any more "AS SEEN ON NATIONAL TV", but "AS SEEN ON NATIONAL SKY".
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
"All your searchlights are belong to us"
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In order to avoid the impending slashdot effect, Dublin moved the website to its new home: http://www.DriveOurCityInsane.com/ Apparently the lights are just the first feature. In the future they're going to incorporate music that viewers can upload and play across the city, voice synthesizers to read off posted comments and various other things guaranteed to drive residents nuts. Apparently they got the idea from some guy from the midwest's home project.
Mine would have to be:
(up arrow) (up arrow) (down arrow) (down arrow) (left arrow) (right arrow) (left arrow) (right arrow) B A Start
IANAL, but I play one on
What is really cool is the 3D model at http://www4.alzado.net/edparticipar.html Could you set this up with Doom or some similar game? I could then reproduce a trip from the Burger King near O'Connell bridge across to the Centra - which I do on the occasional Friday night. Of course in this version I could shoot the person who grabs a taxi I flagged etc. Pow-Pow (Various Gun sounds!!)
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams! Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games, on buses, and milk cartons, and t-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky. But not in dreams! No sirree.
Could some sensitive clod convert these to American Units please ? What does 15km and 154000 watts mean in miles and libraries of congress ?
Before going ahead and spending an hour creating your masterpiece, wouldn't it be a good idea that you first check to see what the conditions are like?
Right now in Toronto (Eastern Daylight Savings Time) it is 11:30 AM and in Dublin it is 4:27:56 PM IST (Irish Standard Time?).
It might be a good idea to wait a few hours before submitting your project, designed to be intuitively obvious to any extraterrestrial beings that there is intelligent life on Earth...
myke
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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.
why?
I expect because he is a Brit.
You wouldn't believe how biased the press in the UK is with regards to anything European. It really is sad. Most of the British do not have access to impartial information about Europe. And it's not just the "red-top" newspapers, it's so called "quality" papers such as The Times and The Telegraph. They only ever print negative stories about anything European, and some things are so distorted that they amount to lies and propoganda.
I find it a real shame because I genuinely used to believe that Britain jouralists had a strong sense of integrity and impartiality. Not any more.
(I'm British too but I travel a lot in Europe and my business involves trade between different EU countries.)
The Irish presidency is now handling the software patent issue. After the EU Commission proposal got blasted by the Parliament (thanks Parliament!), Ireland has now put forth a "compromise" that's even more pro-swpat than the original Commission one. So why not remind them of the main anti-software-patent organization and the 300'000 signatures by spelling "FFII" across the Dublin sky?
Any sufficiently advanced libertarian utopia is indistinguishable from government.
> Let me guess - you're British!
I'm Irish actually.
If you're going to chuck a country out of the EU for blocking European 'progress', then where will it end? I wouldn't be surprised if Britain isn't the only big country to say 'No'. The French only voted 50.5 to 49.5 for the Euro currency.
The EU is incredibly currupt, financially and morally. They should get their house in order, and prove they deserve our respect before making the EU anything other than a trade bloc.
Europeans everywhere - read the small print before voting.
Also, even Tony Blair will tell you a 'No' vote doesn't mean Britain would have the leave the EU. There are a few countries, such as Norway and Switzerland, who are in the free trade area, but they don't sign up to all the other nonsense.
when I submitted mine there was no one in the queue, so it was displayed immediately
Is it just me, or does it seem like they are opening themselves up to trouble by not having some sort of screening program in place for the designs? How long before a giant, vector graphic representation of the goatse.cx guy is seen floating over Dublin?
Mechanik
Too bad Albert Speer isn't still alive. He knew how to arrange a searchlight light show!
Rich
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Surely its celebrating the accession of 10 new EU members (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Rep., Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Malta and Cyprus on May 1st) swelling us to the largest organised group of people on the earth after India and China?
I'm sure our country isn't so egotistic to celebrate a usual (even if rare) event such as the EU presidency.
Could someone fix the posting?
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The articles does say that is runs from dusk till dawn...
Currently, there is a 10 hour wait, and it's 5pm here. The lights won't start until sometime after 9 when it's dark enough to see the lights.
Incidently, you get emailed a link to a webpage so that you can see you design from 4 different cameras.
T.
I have often suspected that British policy towards the EU is to try to very hard to get kicked out.
Personally I think the UK's relationship with the USA is at the heart of the UK's actions in the EU.
Some in the administration of the USA have said quite clearly that their policy towards the EU is one of divide and rule. We have seen this working quite clearly recently, when Blair put a lot of effort into developing a relationship with Spain and used that to divide Europe about the Iraq war.
The USA does not want a strong, united Europe. They like the fact that the UK is always half-in, half-out, because it means that Europe is less united an weaker. Quite what the UK gets out of it I don't know, but the relationship between the UK and USA has always been somewhat murkey, even to us Brits.
Isn't this similar to the blinkenlights project?
What an apalling waste of energy. Just think of all the Guinness that could be brewed with that much electricity!
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I have to admit it makes an impressive sight. My apartment is only 200 hundred yards from O'Connell St. The patterns have been getting more intricate in the last 2 nights as users have gotten more adventurous.
Many are getting all the spotlights to shine on one narrow band of "The Spire". It then shines like a lighthouse right into the apartment.
Expect some good viewing tonight as cloud cover is 100%.
Just you're average nitpicker.
Walking home from the lab I found it looks quite good. 9MB *.mov at tcd.ie(if someone could mirror it, might be useful)
Next step would be to take some consecutive slots and make some kind of movie.
Have fun