Miniature Facade Mapping

EVERYTHING ELSE, FACADE MAPPING

Over the past few months we have posted a few times about Facade Mapping and how clients can use it bring a whole new visual element to an event. We stumbled upon this mini version of facade mapping last week and we watched in awe at the details and talent that was put into this futuristic children s book. This is the first ever projection mapped pop-up book, at least that we have found!

While this may not translate to the event industry, the creativity is astonishing and opens up a whole new world for art and technology to come together. The background is a fixed paper pop-up book that without light is plain, empty, and just cut-out white paper. With the projection, the scenery comes to life and tells a story.

Are you as impressed as we were? Take a look for yourself.

https://vimeo.com/davyandkristinmcguire/icebook

Facade Mapping and Facade Projection: Washington, DC

EVENT INDUSTRY, FACADE MAPPING, LIVE EVENTS

Many of our clients are exploring the use of facade mapping and facade projection for their own events and activations. We have seen this technique used at product launches and festivals around the world and around the nation. I have not seen many examples of facade mapping in Washington, DC, so I was particularly excited when I heard that one of our vendors, EventEQ, was working as part of a team to do just that. I have included a great photo here and you can check out the video below.

EventEQ provided the video projection technology at the National Portrait Gallery for the HITT Contracting 75th anniversary celebration. We all know it takes a number of great companies to pull this off and the Hutchinson Design Group (producer) and BARTKRESA (projection design) did a great job leading the project. For a bit more information on the technical side, there is a great article about the system here.

HITT 75th Anniversary Celebration from Bart Kresa on Vimeo.

It s Still Awesome: Five More Videos of Outdoor Facade Mapping

FACADE MAPPING

One of these days, we ll get over how awesome facade mapping is, but that day is not today.

Getty Museum, Los Angeles

For the launch of Pacific Standard Time at the Getty Center, Megavision Arts was tasked by producer Ben Bourgeois with designing a multi-media immersive experience that was projection-mapped onto five of the buildings. Incorporating artists works from over seventy Southern California institutions, the visual experience, synchronized with music and narration, illustrated the History of Art in LA: 1945 to 1980.

Grand Palais, Paris

Holy artspeak, Batman. Created by the abstract minds at teamLeab, The waterfall video art work is created in 3D space and uses what we consider to be the logic structure of spatial recognition of our Japanese Ancestors.

Parr Hall, UK

Made by the emerging technology gurus at Draw & Code, this projection mapping project featured Parr Hall, Warrington s top venue nestled in its historic quarter. With the help of local students, who provided the themes for the animation and its soundtrack too, we took the audience on a journey from Warrington s Roman roots through the literature of Lewis Carroll through the world wars and onto today.

Lakeview East, Chicago

Created by DCBolt Productions for the Lakeview East Festival of the Arts, this work was projected onto the Lakeview Athletic Club building facade to commemmorate the festival s 10th anniversary.

NOVAK

This one s kind of a mish-mash: the motion design guys over at NOVAK have put together a showreel of their recent projection mapping work, and it s worth a serious gander.

It Just Won t Stop: More Killer Projection Mapping Videos

EVENT PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY, FACADE MAPPING

So, uh, we can t stop staring at gorgeous light sculpture and projection mapping videos. It s like getting your fortune told and finding out you re gonna get magic powers. Our industry is already pretty fun, but now that this kind of stuff is moving from experimental to mainstream , A/V and production design is about to go spare. Join us while we ogle the future and applaud the architects that are making it happen:

The Skrillex Cell

Yes, hunty, yes! A deep bow to the particle artists over at V Squared Labs, who created this intense live-robot-DJ-booth-thing for the Skrillex Mothership Tour. They say, The Skrillex Cell is a multidisciplinary touring production that mixes 3D projection mapping and real-time motion capture for live performance. Collaborating closely with Production Club, Phil Reyneri, Leviathan, and Blood Company, the V Squared team helped bring the Skrillex Cell to life. V Squared Labs created custom animation for real-time projection mapping and generative, audio-reactive effects using elements of the proprietary V Squared Labs Epic 3D mapping video server.

Student Projects in Creative Media

Tobias Gremmeler, Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media in Hong Kong and researcher of new media, showcases some incredible student work over on Vimeo and his personal site. He combines light and media installations with what he calls kinetic sculptures , which are actually, we ll let the expert explain:

A Kinetic Sculpture is a physical object that contains moving parts, driven by electronic motors or other forces. Its motion behaviour can be controlled by a software sequencer or input sensors. When using sensors, the objects motion is reacting interactively to its environment. Thus, the movement is triggered by gestures, sounds or other processible impulses and data. Furthermore, a Kinetic Sculpture can produce sound similar to mechanical music or is able to dance a certain choreography.

Real-time Projection Mapping in 3D

ROM is a lab that explores the boundaries between art and technology . In this look behind the curtain, ROM shows off a simple interactive projection mapping technique that we think will form the basis for a throng of new approaches to experience design.

Aquaszenarium Krimml

The Aquaszenarium is the interactive heart of Krimml s Waterfall Center, located at the base of Europe s highest Waterfalls. The installation features a fully interactive 3D projection, immersing the visitors in magically transforming water worlds. Floor as well as walls are multi-touch sensitive, allowing the visitor to dive directly into the scene, interacting with artificial lifeforms and playing with water particles.

mayer+empl

My personal favorite (and naturally, also German), this interactive light sculpture by mayer+empl responds to sound.

Cooooool: Panasonic Unveils World s First High-Speed Projection Mapping System at CES 2016

FACADE MAPPING

CES, king of consumer electronics trade shows, wrapped up this weekend in Vegas, naturally breaking all kinds of attendance records. Running for nearly half a century, the CES 2016 edition drew 170,000 attendees, with 3,800 exhibitors covering almost 2.5 million square feet of floor space. Hot diggety.

Obviously, there was was some sweet gadgetry on display: your basic self-driving cars, a machine that re-grows hair, and an alarm clock that wakes you up by stimulating your sense of smell. But what really caught our eye was the world s first high-speed projection mapping system, a prototype unveiled by Panasonic and demonstrated via pop n lock:

Projection what-ting?

Right. Break it down, Wikipedia:

Projection mapping, also known as video mapping and spatial augmented reality, is a projection technology used to turn objects, often irregularly shaped, into a display surface for video projection. These objects may be complex industrial landscapes, such as buildings, small indoor objects or theatrical stages. By using specialized software, a two- or three-dimensional object is spatially mapped on the virtual program which mimics the real environment it is to be projected on. The software can interact with a projector to fit any desired image onto the surface of that object.[1] This technique is used by artists and advertisers alike who can add extra dimensions, optical illusions, and notions of movement onto previously static objects.

The thing with current projection mapping systems is that they have to be programmed in advance. A human being has to tell them where objects , which is naturally time consuming and restrictive. If any of your background components move out of alignment with the project mapping, the effect can be lost:

After the object which will be projected on is chosen or created, software is used to map the corners of the video to the surfaces. First, one must choose the images or video to project. Then, place each video on to its designated surface . In 3d Mapping, coordinates need to be defined for where the object is placed in relation to the projector, the xyz orientation, position and lens specification of the projector must be determined virtual scene.

This is where Panasonic s new prototype comes in: it responds to objects in motion that are not marked, like people, rather than depending on rigid, pre-set programming. For event producers, that opens up a whole new realm of possibility for dynamic experiences. Cool? We think so.

The Best of Projection Mapping Inspiration: Experimental Surfaces

EVENT PRODUCTION INSPIRATION, FACADE MAPPING

This blog is kinda turning into Projection Mapping Watch , but oh well. Projection mapping is awesome, and these weird videos of experimental light projects aren t gonna collect themselves. In this segment, we re taking a look at recent projects from Q1 of 2016 that highlight projection onto interesting surfaces, or combine projection with other emerging technologies.

Projection Mapping & VVVV

As projection mapping becomes increasingly popular, we re seeing an uptick in related digital tools and software. vvvv is a hybrid visual/textual live-programming environment for easy prototyping and development. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously. Created by Maria Mitsi, this little experiment explores the capabilities of vvvv.

Light as art in Lithuania

Lithuania s Barbora Giliute explores projection mapping on canvas, adding depth and additional dimensions to two-dimensional gallery displays.

Event Production Blog: Event Management Blog - Projection Mapping Inspiration

Projection Mapping on Ceramics

Taipei-based artist Joshua Chao creates a living Ming vase with projection-mapped patterns on ceramic.

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Projection Mapping 3D

Combining two emerging technologies into one? Yes, please. Spanish artist Dominic Plaza collaborated on Axioma, a sterescoping / 3D mapp[ed] interpretation of geometry such as points, lines, planes, curves, surfaces, polygons, etc. In other words, a trippy geometric visual experience that comes a live with 3D glasses.

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Because we Can: Building Art

Projection mapping on the side of a the Library of the National Archives in Quebec.

INVICTA: Projection Mapping on Letters

This intensely urban project was a collaboration between Lyft Creative Studio & Xesta Studio.

Live Wallpaper

Hellooooo next level interior design shit. These insanely beautiful weather-scapes were projected over the bookshevles at Payot Library in Switzerland.

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