This has been a fun project to follow. Great job, Ben! Hope I'll see one of these in a coffee shop, mall, or airport one day.
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#62A refresh rate of 370 microhertz gives "Calm Technology" a whole new meaning. I love it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calm_technology
Coincidentally that's also the framerate of the YouTube stream main camera (please fix OP)
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#63Super cool project! I see the map on the wall.. where in Wisconsin are ya?
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#64Very cool. I loved reading your write-up. It reminded me of something I'd read in a steampunk novel once. I had to Google it to get the details. It's the kinotrope from Gibson & Sterling's Difference Engine.
I found a blog post about it and someone who made one with a servo for each pixel. Now that would be expensive!
https://differencing.blogspot.com/2010/04/kinotrope-clackers...
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#65Very cool. I loved reading your write-up. It reminded me of something I'd read in a steampunk novel once. I had to Google it to get the details. It's the kinotrope from Gibson & Sterling's Difference Engine. I found a blog post about it and someone who made one with a servo for each pixel. Now that would be expensive! https://differencing.blogspot.com/2010/04/kinotrope-clackers...
Breakfast design has made a number of similar panels with different “mediums”, likely inspired by Rozin’s work: https://breakfaststudio.com/works/echo
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#67Evil triumphs when good people lean into their hobbies.
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#68See also Daniel Rozin’s Wooden Mirror [1999]
https://digitalartarchive.siggraph.org/artwork/daniel-rozin-...
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#69Another idea: have the cubes point an edge straight forward (instead of a face). Then if each cube has two adjacent dark sides and two adjacent light sides, one could setup two ‘simultaneous’ images: one viewed from the left at 45° and another viewed from the right. (Each pixel would have four possibilities.)
If you're willing to sacrifice a color just use triangles/prisms the faces could then just be virtually adjacent and still rotate independently
https://excalidraw.com/#json=driyv7dR-eODBzuh_hdrk,93QQvkYae...
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#70Another idea: have the cubes point an edge straight forward (instead of a face). Then if each cube has two adjacent dark sides and two adjacent light sides, one could setup two ‘simultaneous’ images: one viewed from the left at 45° and another viewed from the right. (Each pixel would have four possibilities.)
Similarly, the camera could stay face-on and double the pixel count with largely the same hardware.
For this to work, you'd want two adjacent faces painted, rather than opposite faces being painted, which seems to be how they're currently done (unless they only have one face painted?). Then the four possible rotations would allow for each possible pixel-pair. (The cubes could perhaps instead be squat rectangular prisms, to correct the aspect ratio, too.)