Sam Galison

This project was created in collaboration with 

 for Verizon's booth at a trade show in Las Vegas. The "chandelier" uses two webcams to capture viewers' silhouettes, and translates those silhouettes into light – a different color on each side. When nobody's present, the chandelier's custom software uses the noise in ambient light to create a glittering blend of the two colors, beckoning attendees into the booth.

The piece is two meters (six and a half feet) tall, and uses 36 custom-built LED tubes. Each tube has 60 pixels, for a total of 2,160 individual points of light. Custom Max/MSP/Jitter software maps the live video feed into the physical shape of the chandelier, cascading images away from the viewer on each side.

This project was created in collaboration with IB5k for Verizon's booth at a trade show in Las Vegas. The "chandelier" uses two webcams to capture viewers' silhouettes, and translates those silhouettes into light – a different color on each side. When nobody's present, the chandelier's custom software uses the noise in ambient light to create a glittering blend of the two colors, beckoning attendees into the booth.

The piece is two meters (six and a half feet) tall, and uses 36 custom-built LED tubes. Each tube has 60 pixels, for a total of 2,160 individual points of light. Custom Max/MSP/Jitter software maps the live video feed into the physical shape of the chandelier, cascading images away from the viewer on each side.

This project was created in collaboration with IB5k for Verizon's booth at a trade show in Las Vegas. The "chandelier" uses two webcams to c

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Very nice. Where did the individually addressable led strips come from?

Thanks! The strips themselves are from Adafruit (

), and they're inserted into lengths of translucent HDPE tubing (the same material that Nalgene bottles are made of).

Thanks! The strips themselves are from Adafruit (these ones), and they're inserted into lengths of translucent HDPE tubing (the same material that Nalgene bottles are made of).

Really cool installation! Any chance you could explain in a bit more detail the custom software side of things? Currently trying to figure out how to send video, via max, to a 30x60 pixel wall of LED. Thanks

volumetric LED chandelier

2018

Las Vegas