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I posted earlier this year the details of the Hotel Habitat building developed by Cloud9. I've just come accross some lovely more images so I thought I'd stick a few up. Further images .
“The Habitat Hotel will be developed in the Barcelona area. It is a hotel with a light mesh that wraps the whole building. The light mesh has sensors that will read the daylight sun amplitude and then at night each node will give off color according to how much that node collected sun.”
February 28th, 2006
James Clar of LED Voxel fame is currently working on an architecture model for the Cloud9’s ‘Habitat Hotel’. “The Habitat Hotel will be developed in the Barcelona area. It is a hotel with a light mesh that wraps the whole building. The light mesh has sensors that will read the daylight sun amplitude and then at night each node will give off color according to how much that node collected sun. Therefore, the mesh reflects the energy levels of each day, it will change over seasons and due to weather… The mesh itself is raised off the building and forms its own see-through structure. Also, each node is self-contained with it’s own sensor and LEDs, there is no central computer controlling the whole structure.”
An interactive prototype of this system will be exhibited at ‘MoMA‘ next month.
via the always on the ball pixelsumo
January 16th, 2006
Cubatron
Cubatron’s maker claims it to be the “world’s largest true 3D color graphics display” however I know from speaking to someone who specializes in interactive architectural lighting that there is a much bigger one being developed for one of the UK’s most well known Architects. Sorry I’ve got to be so secretive but I’m not sure if its still a secret. Either way what I like about this project is that the whole construction and system is explained right down to the website where he got the ping pong balls
Video 1
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Anyway for the meantime I’ll assume this is the largest 3D color graphics display or at least one of the largest. It is 8×8x8 feet in size. It consists of 729 voxels (3D pixels) arranged in a 9×9x9 matrix, spaced 10 inches apart from each other. Each voxel is a 40mm diameter ball that can be independently set to display a 21-bit RGB color. The entire display can be updated about 30 times per second. The voxels “float” in space so that the viewer can see through the cube and have a view of most of the voxels from any position. Nice to see it on a large human size scale.
James Clar
A really nice but much smaller although I think more elegant collection of pieces that used a 3D LED Matrix have been created by James Clar.
Video of Interactive 3D Matrix
December 14th, 2005