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Light Painting Wi-Fi

Posted by samzenpus on from the light-means-might dept.

dostojevski78 writes "Some Norwegian art students built this gizmo to visualize wi-fi signal strength in the city streets. The result is simply beautiful. Who said technology can't be aesthetically pleasing?"

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  1. I like the concept, just not the application by GodfatherofSoul · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Knowing the difference in signal strength along 100 feet of sidewalk is pretty useless. Just throwing out an idea, I think it would be neat to use a NASA-ish artificially colored satellite view of a city. At different points; record say three different metrics; secured network strength, open network strength, and say number of networks. Assign each an RGB component and color your maps that way. You'd be able to quickly look at a map and determine based on color and intensity the approximate characteristics of WIFI all over a map.

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  2. Slow news day? by pahles · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I saw this already in February on another site...

    The effect is cool however!

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