Love the analogue touch, George. Nice work. I'm generating structures from the pixelS plugin from images but for line drawing data atm. Seems like you could be using pixelS too for this or did you 'hand-code' the animation?
Edit: Oh, now i'm thinking you just found this not made this, haha. I know you wouldn't slap on the cheesy over-used-as-much-as-Knolls-Lens-Flair-in-SF-TV vignette filter to make it look more 'analogue' (but just make it look more Gen-trY ;) )
Cool, but doesn't this kind of thing always have a plasma? :D
Reminds me of something else cool too: a guy from the demoscene needed to re-tile his shower. He requested some low-res low-colour artwork on the demoscene site pouet.net, got a cool picture, and tiled his shower with this cool pic as a mosaic :D http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=54109 (the screenshot is the original artwork, check the youtube link for a video of the shower)
Haven't used for ages myself until now. They've made uploading the vid to their server more automatic (when it works). From there the playback buffering seems woefully slow if this one is anything to go by. The ad at the end seems a bit heavy handed too, but for free it's excellent ;)
I think screencast prob still has the best capture quality for a big image.
I doubt it cost all that much. You can get sheets of these mini-tiles.. normally you'd just apply them to the wall as a sheet, but he obviously cut them to match the pattern of the image. I don't think the sheets cost all that much if you shop around. The guy offered €100 for the artwork, but he could probably have got it for free. The original request thread for it is here: http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=6789&page=1&x=8&y=14 (be warned, pouet is more or less unmoderated, and you might see pretty much anything in the forum there. The first page merely features a swastika shower, but I suspect it gets worse on later pages ;)
The main issues really are the time involved (it's going to take a LOT longer than regular plain tiles!), finding sheets of mini-tiles in a suitable range of colours, and getting some suitable art (you need somebody who's used to working in low resolution and low colour - somewhere like pouet.net is good because there's a ton of artists who work on C64s and spectrums :)
Yeah, if you can do your own artwork you're good to go. You just need to be really good at tiling or find somebody prepared to tile it like this. If you go for it, post up the results!
(Hmm... you know those sheets of RGB LEDs you can use to set up big screens? How about one of them embedded in white tile glue? With frosted glass tiles! Now THAT would be an awesome shower!)
Pouet: no, it's always been a website, no newsgroup connections. But the demoscene has a long history of using BBSs (remember those, you dialed some number with your modem and got a really cool terminal based thing where you could download stuff, read articles and talk to people?) The 'forum' on pouet is actually title 'the oldskool pouët.net bbs'. It's generally reasonably safe, but does break out into chaos now and then (and a few bbs threads are generally best avoided, especially at work ;)
Double Lol... yeah, I definitely know those ;-) The first time I worked with some I was like "must have some for house someday".
Hmm, you probably wouldn't even need to embed it in the glue... you could just stretch it out, and have a sort of frame for it inside of the frost glass tile part - which is a killer idea. Having diffusion on it would look really amazing in that scenario. Low rez, but kind of like a high rez color organ at the same time.
I'm laughing at how over the top it would be to have a rack of equipment in the closet that's next to my shower, but how the location is perfect.
Yeah, I definitely remember BBSs, belonged to quite a few audio engineering ones.
You could size the glass tiles to fill the space between LEDs - that way you'd get a pixel in each corner of the glass, which would probably look better and give a smoother effect. Plus it'd probably be easier to manager - just tile as normal, and lay the net into the spaces between tiles, then grout over to cover it.
Plus you wouldn't need a rack of equipment in there. You'd just leave the plug ready, and hook up a laptop when entering the shower/showing off to visitors/both at the same time.
It probably wouldn't even be all that expensive. You'd need the LED net, but beyond that I suspect you could get a reasonably cheap sheet of frosted glass and get it cut to size + polished.
You would also need a video system manager to send/map the feed to the lights (idk, maybe there is some cheaper way around this, but I've never seen that not be part of the equation), and the power supply of course. I didn't mean it would be a big rack of stuff.
That's an interesting idea of putting tiles in between pixels... putting diffusing tile "over" all of the lights would glue the look together quite a bit as well (maybe moreso).
Yeah, I actually don't think it would be that expensive either! Especially considering the cost of typical bathroom materials....
You know, I happened to see the Kanye West "Gold Digger" video yesterday, and I couldn't help but think about the cheese vignette comment the whole time. ;-)
That's good — must have been on target. I saw some glass blocks in the window of a glaziers store yesterday and couldn't stop thinking about where to position the LEDs best for maximum diffusion! Looks like the inside edges are coated with a paint of some sort which could easily be scratched back. Not sure how you'd get the light to 'bend' inside the block though
On Kanye West, anybody who has to make soft-porn for his MTVs is the Gold Digger if anybody cares for my opinion. That ideology seems to include the whole commercial (c)'rap' genre (not true rap though). I guess I should leave the rest of my comments on you-tube!
Love the analogue touch, George. Nice work. I'm generating structures from the pixelS plugin from images but for line drawing data atm. Seems like you could be using pixelS too for this or did you 'hand-code' the animation?
Edit: Oh, now i'm thinking you just found this not made this, haha. I know you wouldn't slap on the cheesy over-used-as-much-as-Knolls-Lens-Flair-in-SF-TV vignette filter to make it look more 'analogue' (but just make it look more Gen-trY ;) )
Cool, but doesn't this kind of thing always have a plasma? :D
Reminds me of something else cool too: a guy from the demoscene needed to re-tile his shower. He requested some low-res low-colour artwork on the demoscene site pouet.net, got a cool picture, and tiled his shower with this cool pic as a mosaic :D http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=54109 (the screenshot is the original artwork, check the youtube link for a video of the shower)
Lol, just so we're clear, I just found this and thought it was interesting, I didn't have anything to do with it.
How do you like Jing? I haven't used it in quite awhile...
"Release the Cracken!"
That's really cool... I wonder how much that cost to do (redoing my shower sometime in the near future). Great idea.
Jing:
Haven't used for ages myself until now. They've made uploading the vid to their server more automatic (when it works). From there the playback buffering seems woefully slow if this one is anything to go by. The ad at the end seems a bit heavy handed too, but for free it's excellent ;)
I think screencast prob still has the best capture quality for a big image.
I doubt it cost all that much. You can get sheets of these mini-tiles.. normally you'd just apply them to the wall as a sheet, but he obviously cut them to match the pattern of the image. I don't think the sheets cost all that much if you shop around. The guy offered €100 for the artwork, but he could probably have got it for free. The original request thread for it is here: http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=6789&page=1&x=8&y=14 (be warned, pouet is more or less unmoderated, and you might see pretty much anything in the forum there. The first page merely features a swastika shower, but I suspect it gets worse on later pages ;)
The main issues really are the time involved (it's going to take a LOT longer than regular plain tiles!), finding sheets of mini-tiles in a suitable range of colours, and getting some suitable art (you need somebody who's used to working in low resolution and low colour - somewhere like pouet.net is good because there's a ton of artists who work on C64s and spectrums :)
I thought of doing something of mine! I've had to work with really lo rez LED a number of times.
That's funny about pouet. That's the kind of site that seems like it might have been a newsgroup at one time...
Yeah, if you can do your own artwork you're good to go. You just need to be really good at tiling or find somebody prepared to tile it like this. If you go for it, post up the results!
(Hmm... you know those sheets of RGB LEDs you can use to set up big screens? How about one of them embedded in white tile glue? With frosted glass tiles! Now THAT would be an awesome shower!)
Pouet: no, it's always been a website, no newsgroup connections. But the demoscene has a long history of using BBSs (remember those, you dialed some number with your modem and got a really cool terminal based thing where you could download stuff, read articles and talk to people?) The 'forum' on pouet is actually title 'the oldskool pouët.net bbs'. It's generally reasonably safe, but does break out into chaos now and then (and a few bbs threads are generally best avoided, especially at work ;)
Double Lol... yeah, I definitely know those ;-) The first time I worked with some I was like "must have some for house someday".
Hmm, you probably wouldn't even need to embed it in the glue... you could just stretch it out, and have a sort of frame for it inside of the frost glass tile part - which is a killer idea. Having diffusion on it would look really amazing in that scenario. Low rez, but kind of like a high rez color organ at the same time.
I'm laughing at how over the top it would be to have a rack of equipment in the closet that's next to my shower, but how the location is perfect.
Yeah, I definitely remember BBSs, belonged to quite a few audio engineering ones.
You could size the glass tiles to fill the space between LEDs - that way you'd get a pixel in each corner of the glass, which would probably look better and give a smoother effect. Plus it'd probably be easier to manager - just tile as normal, and lay the net into the spaces between tiles, then grout over to cover it.
Plus you wouldn't need a rack of equipment in there. You'd just leave the plug ready, and hook up a laptop when entering the shower/showing off to visitors/both at the same time.
It probably wouldn't even be all that expensive. You'd need the LED net, but beyond that I suspect you could get a reasonably cheap sheet of frosted glass and get it cut to size + polished.
You would also need a video system manager to send/map the feed to the lights (idk, maybe there is some cheaper way around this, but I've never seen that not be part of the equation), and the power supply of course. I didn't mean it would be a big rack of stuff.
That's an interesting idea of putting tiles in between pixels... putting diffusing tile "over" all of the lights would glue the look together quite a bit as well (maybe moreso).
Yeah, I actually don't think it would be that expensive either! Especially considering the cost of typical bathroom materials....
You know, I happened to see the Kanye West "Gold Digger" video yesterday, and I couldn't help but think about the cheese vignette comment the whole time. ;-)
That's good — must have been on target. I saw some glass blocks in the window of a glaziers store yesterday and couldn't stop thinking about where to position the LEDs best for maximum diffusion! Looks like the inside edges are coated with a paint of some sort which could easily be scratched back. Not sure how you'd get the light to 'bend' inside the block though
On Kanye West, anybody who has to make soft-porn for his MTVs is the Gold Digger if anybody cares for my opinion. That ideology seems to include the whole commercial (c)'rap' genre (not true rap though). I guess I should leave the rest of my comments on you-tube!