Bay Lights Project turns SF Bay Bridge into a ‘big-ass display’
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#2"The world’s largest LED light sculpture will light up San Francisco tonight: 1.8 miles long, 500 feet high, and consisting of 25,000 individually programmed lights tied onto the entire length of the Bay Bridge’s western span..."
This is going to be pretty incredible.
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#3It's quite a sight to see. I love it. Although it doesn't officially start until this evening, they've been testing it every night. Here's a short timelapse that I shot of the bridge during one of the tests: https://vimeo.com/60966438
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#4How long until it becomes a billboard, though?
Re: Bay Lights Project turns SF Bay Bridge into a ‘big-ass display’
#5I might have misread the article, but it seems like the artist will be controlling the display.
It'd be cool if they built an API over this and allowed for crowdsourced displays, almost like how Google accepts designs for their homepage logo.
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#6I thought it already launched - the bay bridge has been lighting up for past few weeks.
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#7I thought it already launched - the bay bridge has been lighting up for past few weeks.
They've been testing and calibrating. Tonight is the grand launch.
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#8Is there anyway we can get the lights turned back on the Golden Gate Bridge? They turned them off a long time ago to save money or the environment or something. I can remember how cool it used to look.
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#9I might have misread the article, but it seems like the artist will be controlling the display. It'd be cool if they built an API over this and allowed for crowdsourced displays, almost like how Google accepts designs for their homepage logo.
That would be seriously fun but a bit dicey. Looking at the LED 'pixel' it looks like it could have easily been an RGB pixel. Not sure that would be all that useful but still to have the colors would have been another dimension. With 9 LEDs you could either go 3-3-3 or 2-2-5 in terms of using Red, Green, and Blue LEDs to light it up. Or RGBK with 2-2-2-3. Lots of fun.
I've been watching the setups as the local newscast keeps their web cam pointed at the bridge for their nightly news. I hope it generates enough interest to become permanent.
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#10Hmm, kind of sad that there's no mention of it's forerunner, the Blinkenlights project:
http://blinkenlights.net/project
It was done by a handful of folks (mostly CCC members) and included an API and the ability to play pong on it via cell phone. The 2002 follow-up was higher resolution: