An installation of the new Toyota Auris with Hybrid Synergy Drive uses projection mapping to bring to life the technology within the Auris itself. Glue Isobar used seven projectors to project a CG version of the car onto the real car, allowing observers to walk around the car and experience the effect.
Google just released Google Goggles for iPhone. It’s been out for Android for a while and is now available for iPhone users. Read more on Google Mobile.
In 2009, Urban Screen and artist Daniel Rossa teamed up to create 555 Kubik, a facade installation meant to transform the way spectators engaged with O. M. Ungers “Galerie der Gegenwart.”
Exciting to see facade projection made with the building involved in mind.
The Facade Printer enables users to reproduce simple pieces of art on vast facades, using paintballs. The creators explain,
The Facadeprinter is a simple software controlled robot. It consists of a turn table with two axes and an air-pressure print head. The printer shoots the artwork from a distance dot by dot onto the chosen area. Using this method, inaccessible and uneven surfaces can be used for large scale prints. Artworks can be printed on buildings without costly scaffolding.
The Facadeprinter is a large scale communication tool. Print-aesthetic and method are notably different from conventional print and advertising techniques. Artworks are applied directly onto walls, like the drawings of a ‘magic pen’. At present, the maximum print distance is 12 meters, the maximum print height is around 8 meters. The shooting frequency is up to 5 dots per second.
Beijing’s Water Cube, the site of Michael Phelps dominating 2008 Olympics performance, has been transformed into a waterpark of Alice-in-Wonderland-tastic proportions.
Many worried the building would become an empty blight, but a Toronto architecture firm has turned it into anything but. The park replaces the pool which people could swim in for $7. Now it is more of a monument to Michael Phelps’ recreational habits than his professional ones.
