For this project I aim to create an interactive piece that connects people with events that’s happening all around us, and I also want to play around with real time data. After lots of research, and heavily inspired by an older project of mine, Twitch Plays Drums ( https://github.com/nhtranngoc/twitch-plays-drums ), the Lightning Globe was born….
Final Documentation – Sofia de Oliveira
When this class first started, I was intimidated by the amount of freedom we had with creating what we wanted. But I was soon inspired by what I’ve been calling a perspective piece. A perspective piece is one where there is one image on one side, and when rotated 90 degrees, it makes another image….
Final Document – Nicholas Weddington
In the late Spring of 2016, I was greatly inspired by Clair Danes’ dress at the Met Gala. The Met Gala is one of the largest events to take over the internet every year as all A-List celebrities attend in their best couture looks by top designers. The theme was “Manus x Machina: Fashion in…
Final Documentation – Tom Vagnini
For my final project, my goal was to make a creative light art sculpture like nothing I had seen before. I’ve worked with stained glass in previous projects, and I’ve always liked the look, material, and durability of it. It is also a great technique for a light art project, because the glass can project…
Will Gaddis Final Documentation
For my light art project, I wanted to combine my passion of photography and interest in portraits with the light art technique of light painting. Light painting is the process of long exposure shots in a dark setting, while moving a bright light around to create trails and beams of colored light. To prepare for…
Final Documentation: IRLP
Interactive Real-time Light Painting (IRLP) intersects technology and art to make light painting more accessible and interactive to artists and everyday users through robotics. Users can control robots from mobile devices, moving them around to desired positions while selecting different “brushes,” or colors and patterns from LEDs on the robots to paint with. The…
Final Documentation – Laser “Etch-a-sketch”
A-term of 2019, I began my Light Art Practicum to complete my humanities requirement at WPI. I had to begin thinking about what I wanted my project to be. I knew I wanted to do something unique, something where I could incorporate different aspects of my learnings and hobbies. Being the mechanical engineering that I…
Final Documentation – Joncarlo Avila
For my humanities project, I set out to do something I had never seen before. It was something within my hobby of drones and RC planes, but I was unsure if it would be possible. I set out to take long exposure photos of LED lights attached to a drone. I originally set out with…
Final Documentation — Dian Chen
Finally, I finished my paper-cut night light as the project of light art practicum. The basic concept comes from shadow box, which made from different types of paper and LED strip light. After 7 weeks’ design, attempts, failure and polish, the project is completely done. The original design After deciding to make a night light,…
Final Documentation- JLopez
My project is neither site specific nor temporarily set up because my final project is a video. To reiterate, throughout the term, I used light art techniques combined with stop motion animation to create a short video almost like a music video. I combine light techniques such as neon lighting and shadows to create visuals…
Polish and Present – Nam Tran Ngoc
This past week I focused on making the globe much more presentable and reliable, both hardware and software wise. The globe casing was causing me trouble since it was too small, so I scaled it up and doubled the size. This results in a massive globe at 13” diameter. And rather than winding the LED…
Polish and Present – Nicholas Weddington
This past week was the last iteration for my Star Drip light up jeans. In this blog post, I will discuss the struggles that I encountered and the steps I followed leading up to my final product. The rest of my parts arrived on Tuesday so I got to work as soon as I could….
Polish and Present – Alex Boggess
The final week working on the Laser Etch-a-sketch project involved the most work and persistence. I continued to use the same mechanical components including the two Fast-speed servos, an Arduino Nano, a Mini-Maestro 18 for driving the servos, two potentiometers, and two pushbuttons. As I noted last week, the y-axis potentiometer is now fully working…