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VVVV live painting on 3D LED heads

credits Christopher Schultz, Philipp Ronnenberg, Benjamin Petersen

Giant head sculptures, symbolising the 'open minds' theme of the anniversary, are brought to life with over 36,000 LEDs and more than 7.5km of cable. We designed the visual content that plays on the contoured surface of each 3D head. At the event, children used tablets to draw digitally onto the giant heads.

We used Win surface PRO tablets (actually the first edition, imported from the US). In our opinion the only real tablet for running VVVV. Pros: i5 chip, surprizingly good speed, good resolution. Cons: getting quite warm.

We set up a wifi connection between tablet and 3D LED-head workstation, both running VVVV. Several V4 software brushes were developed. Your artwork is getting saved on a gallery.

Showtime was Oct 13 - March 14 in Zurich, London, New York, Beijing.

Kids loved it. Client happy. We are too.

MARKENFILM CROSSING (Hamburg): Technical concept / UI design / film footage production / technical supervision / VVVV (C. Schultz, P. Ronnenberg, B. Petersen).www.markenfilm-crossing.de

XL SOLUTION (Düsseldorf): LED hardware

BELLPRAT (Zurich): Event & space architecture

ADVICO (Zurich): Media concept

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Alec 04/03/2014 - 23:34

Cool! What kind of led did you use?

flame 05/03/2014 - 10:43

The heads are custome-made shapes. LEDs were mounted 1-by-1 (manually!) into the head shape. Designed in Switzerland, constructed in China, fine-tuned in Germany. The mapping part was really complex as we had no horizontal/vertical grid like usual LED products, but a random distribution of LEDs on the head surface.

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