Final Documentation: John Stegeman

Overview The long-exposure-panoramic-display (or LEPDIS) was a fun project for the light art practicum.  LEPDIS utilizes a similar technique to Persistence of Vision displays, however instead of trying to display an image as fast as possible to make it visible to the human eye, the goal was to make the display look like nothing special…

Polish and Present: John Stegeman

Since I had the system working and all my images chosen at the Everything Working assignment, this week was about refinement.  I spent part of this week repainting scuff marks on the box holding the electronics, and covered up the one exposed wire (which unfortunately must be there to enable reasonable transport) with black tape…

Everything Working: John Stegeman

For this week my big final push was to work on compiling the set of images that look good when panned across and fit the project. What really makes an image stand out is the following: High contrast. High dark/light contrast across the image shows up best Color. Lots of different colors look very good…

Failure, Recalibration & Iteration: John Stegeman

For this week, I tackled the issue of images not having clarity when photographed. The next image shows the mage quality to start with. This image clearly is not nearly good enough for the art project. The issue was that the original diffusion material, parchment paper, that I was using let through too much light…

Maquette: John Stegeman

For my project I decided to do the first of my two proposals which is show again below for reference. To complete this project I have decided to run the processing power on a Raspberry Pi computer which allows easy expansion for more memory for images, and plenty of processing power to convert and scale…

Project Proposal: John Stegeman

I’ve had an idea or two about what I could do for the project. The first concept is more thought out and I know how to make it work. The second concept is more of an unknown and more of an experimentation project. Concept 1: This concept utilizes an LED strip to do a super…

Light Artist Presentation: Urbanscreen

Urbanscreen is a light artist group from Bremen Germany.  Urbanscreen works with artists, architects, musicians, and others to bring their ideas to life. Urbanscreen does so by using digital projectors to project light onto objects and the sides of buildings.  In recent years they have predominately done light art presentations and  booths for companies such…

Introduction: John Stegeman

Hello, My name is John Stegeman and I am an RBE senior here at WPI.  I am taking the light art practicum after taking Architecture, 2D Animation, 3D Animation, as well as Musical Robotics while at WPI.  Beyond these classes at WPI my experience with art classes is pottery and some painting and drawing classes…