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I wonder how much of the variation is temporal instead of spatial. There are a few shots in there that were done twice with different results, showing that the
by DougWebb 13y ago
I wonder how much of the variation is temporal instead of spatial. There are a few shots in there that were done twice with different results, showing that the signal strength in a single spot varies over time. You can't use light painting to capture that usefully; you can only make pretty artistic impressions.
- dnr 13y agoIt looked like they were setting the device to respond to a specific ssid, so I assumed those shots were showing two different networks. Also, you could use light painting to capture a time-varying signal: just do it a whole bunch of times in the same spot and turn them into individual frames in a video as in a time-lapse. It would just take a really long time. A motorized track for the sensor would make it a lot easier.
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoI think pretty artistic impression was the point. Project tried to reconcile art with technology that humans can't perceive. By appealing to our aesthetics this drives home the point that we are living surrounded by information fields that we can't perceive and give little thought to.
- richforrester 13y agoYou make a good point, but I think you attached the wrong conclusion. This is definitely time-relative. But you could use light-painting to capture that. Just add a dimension; brightness, color, size. It just, obviously, requires more time. It won't be perfect, but that wasn't even remotely the point here.