A LED matrix is nice but what do you think of an umbrella matrix. Is there a library for that already? (For the impatient jump to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZB_rGFyeU&t=3m50s).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZB_rGFyeU
I was wondering how they coordinated this—all the individuals had some kind of wireless controller (iPhone with a track synced?) which told them when they were “on” or “off”? Not sure. Amazing effect through.
hey Kasper , I worked on many Olympic project where they all want something like that … on the moment there is no wireless device that can guaranty a 100% perfect connection on such a scale …many peopel tray to do this with infrared , wdmx or even Bluetooth … but non off them made the 100% perfect goal … one day …
Must have been a crazy number of hours put into getting that all together! Great performance.
@hans_cromheecke I have never attempted anything like that in my life but I will suggest that they use a broadcasted radio transmission that provides a simple beat and a count. I can’t see why this would not work 100% !?
I would also suggest that each ‘pixel’ is provided with a small battery powered radio receiver fed into a smart device that as the complete score and into which you enter your specific pixel address. A program would extract your part of the whole score and give it to you by toggling an LED.
It appears from the video that they open and close their umbrellas manually (at least at first). But the smart device could just as well feed directly into a solenoid that can automatically open and close that umbrella.
That by no means is meant to diminish the awesome creativity of this video or the skill and patience it takes to choreograph over 2,000 people like that !!!
My initial impression was that once they hit 3.32 in the video it became CGI.