Imagine fixtures that could fly and see new buildings or individually guide you in space. What would happen if you could even interact with these flying pixels? These concepts could be realized in the near future the first prototypes and experiments are implemented. LED pixels controlled by software combined with the drone swarm technology offer extraordinary possibilities to induce new forms of spatial experience. These clouds appear bright pixels as numerical models, but at the same time they give off a romantic quality with their unique formations glittering stars in the night sky. The first projects shared a playful note, but laboratories such as SENSEable City Lab at MIT, ARES Lab and Ars Electronica Futurelab showed interest in future urban design for referral systems or consider real estate developments, the progress open the battery technology and wireless control have new perspectives for life with a bullet flying pixels.
in 2010, MIT's SENSEable City Lab and Aerospace Robotics and Laboratory Embedded Systems (ARES Lab) have developed their vision based pixels micro helicopters flying. The lively animated "Flyfire" demonstrated how self-organization helicopters could contain small LEDs that act as smart pixels. The MIT research was mainly driven by the idea of generating a unique display of free form in a three-dimensional space, where each pixel emits colored light and could reconfigure the display in different forms. Flyfire the project presented an innovative concept, and aerospace experts as Emilio Frazzoli noted in 2010. "Today we are able to simultaneously control a handful of micro helicopters, but we aim to Flyfire scale and reach large numbers "
Two years later, the Ars Electronica Futurelab translated this vision of a cloud smart light in the first prototype of the real world. Forty-nine quadrirotor flew with a programmable LED system and created dynamic 3D figures in the night sky for the Ars Electronica Festival 2012 in Linz. To the untrained eye, light pixel formations have even appeared as a fleet of small UFOs descended on the viewer
Since the successful launch in 2012, the so-called "Spaxels ". - A mixture of space "and the words" pixels "- were presented at several festivals in Europe, the Middle East and Australia. The light choreography has included various forms, colors and sequences of variation for spectacular performances, which were also related to music. Due to the relatively large diffuser element below the LED module, the spaxels achieve good visibility.
Hörtner Horst, Director of Ars Electronica Futurelab, went further when he demonstrated the project "smart Atoms" to 2014 Ars Electronica festival. He created virtual lines with a new generation of spaxels and reconfigured their location directly to generate new forms in space. Thus Hörtner played with real quadrirotor and modified the virtual network between them. This facility has opened an innovative perspective to human interaction with smart pixels. With these developments, the vision of smart holograms seems to narrow.
Unlike previous applications of drones, the recent project has generated transformed the technical aspect of quadrirotor in various dance lampshade for a magical story. With fire, collaborative team of Cirque du Soleil, ETH Zurich, and Verity Studios explores the aesthetic dimension of quadrirotor itself. For the first time flying light pixels dissolved in design objects. The individual materials, shapes and textures drones granted a personality beyond different colors of light.
These light images in three dynamic dimensions will change the way we analyze and simulate the built environment for interior spaces and exterior. Future applications could range from temporary wayfinding solutions in urban spaces - either for events or emergency situations - to view future volumes for renovation work in interior spaces or to discuss the dimensions of future building projects . Light flying pixels would easily enable dynamic simulation of different sizes and construction forms to find the right solution. For tourism, spaxels could assume the role of a guide and view the historical layers of the city.
light issues, a monthly column on light and space, is written by Thomas Schielke. @arcspaces Based in Germany, he is fascinated by architectural lighting, has published numerous articles and co-author of the book "Light Perspectives". For more information check www.arclighting.de or follow
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