art + science: the cool cool world of bubble rasters

::top image:: pipedreams III/ bubble raster at work in the ontario science centre

:: 2nd image:: close up of the bubble raster via 44oz flickrstream

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what could be more fun than capturing photos of your loved ones?

how about capturing photos of loved ones, then having them magically appear, bubble-ized, before your very eyes on a high-resolution embolograph (bubble raster!) that's a couple of storeys high?!

totally brilliant!

pipedreams III is a permanent art & science installation by the fabulous bruce shapiro : the art of motion control (all of his projects are amazing! check ribbon dancers & his sisyphus series.) this particular project wows me at the fabulous ontario science centre (thanks d. & j. for your fabulously kind gift!)

folks pose for a  picture of their beautiful face in a nearby booth and then, low-and-behold, your image is sent, real time,  over 96 tubes that "utilizes a series of computer controlled pneumatic solenoids to inject small bubbles which slowly float up the tube, serving as pixels." the image eventually floats all the way to the top and a new image begins again at the bottom!

so cool!

hard to say if the kids or us adults might love it more (it WAS pretty tough pulling mr. rikrak and i away from the endless artistic possibilities of it!)

wouldn't one be fun in your front room?

or as a photobooth at a wedding? :)

have a bubbly weekend, cuties!

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:: below :: prototype bubble raster set up in the designer's home.

cool.

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