Immaterials: Light painting WiFi

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Post by jrnkntl » Mon, Feb 28, 2011, 11:10 AM UTC

Immaterials: Light painting WiFi
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Re: Immaterials: Light painting WiFi

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Post by lwhi » Mon, Feb 28, 2011, 12:31 PM UTC

This is one of those ideas that I wish I'd thought of.

Simple - but conceptually brilliant. Bridging a conceptual gap between online communication and the physical world.

Re: Immaterials: Light painting WiFi

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Post by snippyhollow » Mon, Feb 28, 2011, 1:42 PM UTC

lwhi wrote: post #2

This is one of those ideas that I wish I'd thought of. Simple - but conceptually brilliant. Bridging a conceptual gap between online communication and the physical world.

Exactly, simple and powerful. Beautiful is the icing on the cake. It is quite some work though.

Re: Immaterials: Light painting WiFi

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Post by beeker » Mon, Feb 28, 2011, 2:43 PM UTC

For me its the typical university project interaction design students create. To which than the whole world (especially those working in UX/UI design) drools.

Re: Immaterials: Light painting WiFi

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Post by sili » Mon, Feb 28, 2011, 3:11 PM UTC

Is there a (harmless) chemical that reacts in some visible way to radio waves? It would be interesting to spray that in the street and see a 3d representation of all different signals in the air.

Re: Immaterials: Light painting WiFi

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Post by peterpaul » Mon, Feb 28, 2011, 3:14 PM UTC

This is fantastic. It would be really cool to build swarm robots that turn measure out a area. then use some 3d projection to produce a spacial overlay, line and elevation map of all wifi

Re: Immaterials: Light painting WiFi

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Post by peterpaul » Mon, Feb 28, 2011, 3:15 PM UTC

peterpaul wrote: post #6

This is fantastic. It would be really cool to build swarm robots that turn measure out a area. then use some 3d projection to produce a spacial overlay, line and elevation map of all wifi

I wonder if google has enough data from their street view vehicles

Re: Immaterials: Light painting WiFi

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Post by rorrr » Mon, Feb 28, 2011, 4:57 PM UTC

sili wrote: post #5

Is there a (harmless) chemical that reacts in some visible way to radio waves? It would be interesting to spray that in the street and see a 3d representation of all different signals in the air.

Light requires a lot of energy. WiFi radio waves are really not that strong. Even if there were a chemical like that, its light would be overpowered by street and window lights.

Re: Immaterials: Light painting WiFi

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Post by niels_olson » Mon, Feb 28, 2011, 7:36 PM UTC

beeker wrote: post #4

For me its the typical university project interaction design students create. To which than the whole world (especially those working in UX/UI design) drools.

s/than/then/

> the whole world drools

So, lots of room to explore, but can you turn a profit? Imagine doing this systematically with 3G. The wireless companies pay big money for this kind of data in GIS systems. Imagine adding "street view" to critical areas.