Science has achieved its first movie on a cloud
One cloudy night, over the city of Nottingham, a green man on a horse skirted across the sky. The piece was part of a collaboration of artists and scientists joining forces to create a zoopraxiscope on steroids, which projected a moving image of a galloping horse.
The zoopraxiscope, put simply, is a rotating disk of still images that simulates motion when rotated and projected on a screen. Artist Dave Lynch, scientist Mike Nix, and maker Aaron Nielsen combined forces to upgrade this analog concept from the early age of cinema with laser technology for it to be strong enough to project a man riding a horse in the clouds. The collaboration is called Project Nimbus.
The laser projector was mounted on a plane while the team searched for the perfect cloud conditions in order to project their movie. To the passengers on the plane, the image looked like a green man on horseback, riding across the clouds. To onlookers below, however, it probably looked like a storm in the distance. The result is quite ghostly, like a piece of tech out of Scooby-Doo.
Lynch was inspired by a paper he read, entitled Non-lethal Weapons: Terms and Reference by Robert Bunker. There was a section detailing weapons from as early as the Vietnam War, in particular, a part on hologram projection. In one part the military had proposed projecting “the image of an ancient god over an enemy capitol whose public communications have been seized and used against it in a massive psychological operation.” I’m thinking today, more people would use it to prank their neighbors with images of UFOs hovering in the night’s sky. Thankfully, the technology isn’t quite there.
As for the future, Lynch hopes the team might collaborate with someone like Richard Branson.
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One cloudy night, over the city of Nottingham, a green man on a horse skirted across the sky. The piece was part of a collaboration of artists and scientists joining forces to create a zoopraxiscope on steroids, which projected a moving image of a galloping horse.
The zoopraxiscope, put simply, is a rotating disk of still images that simulates motion when rotated and projected on a screen. Artist Dave Lynch, scientist Mike Nix, and maker Aaron Nielsen combined forces to upgrade this analog concept from the early age of cinema with laser technology for it to be strong enough to project a man riding a horse in the clouds. The collaboration is called Project Nimbus.
The laser projector was mounted on a plane while the team searched for the perfect cloud conditions in order to project their movie. To the passengers on the plane, the image looked like a green man on horseback, riding across the clouds. To onlookers below, however, it probably looked like a storm in the distance. The result is quite ghostly, like a piece of tech out of Scooby-Doo.
Lynch was inspired by a paper he read, entitled Non-lethal Weapons: Terms and Reference by Robert Bunker. There was a section detailing weapons from as early as the Vietnam War, in particular, a part on hologram projection. In one part the military had proposed projecting “the image of an ancient god over an enemy capitol whose public communications have been seized and used against it in a massive psychological operation.” I’m thinking today, more people would use it to prank their neighbors with images of UFOs hovering in the night’s sky. Thankfully, the technology isn’t quite there.
As for the future, Lynch hopes the team might collaborate with someone like Richard Branson.
Source : geek
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