Daito Manabe + Motoi Ishibashi “particles” Art Installation

The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media in southern Japan is featuring a new “particles” art installtion by Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi.  To create the illumnated particles in three-dimensional space they crafted a rollercoster-like rail structure that carries hundreds of balls with build-in LEDs.  As the balls travel down the rails they are programmed to blink at specific time intervals to create the floating shapes.  Plus, visitors to the installation can control and manipulate the particles with a touch display.

Creative Applications Network has a great post that gets into the technical details behind how the installation work using openFrameworks and Arduino.

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