My project, loosely titled “Visonic Show”, was a light art project that combines music with visual animations in a window of engraved panes. The major construction steps can be found in my previous posts, however I will give an overview of all the major components below. Panes The panes were made from 3/16″ acrylic sheets…
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Polish and Present – Noah Hillman
In order to get my project ready to present, I wanted to build a frame around the exposed LED strips and clean up the wiring and Arduino. For the frame I cut some 1/16″ smoked black acrylic sheets to fit into the corner frame pieces. This protects them from getting peeled off the acrylic or…
Everything Working – Noah Hillman
As of last class, I was happy with the physical appearance of the shapes and illumination of all the panes so I decided this week to test a few different things while I continued drawing the animations for Hard Times. My original idea with this project was to turn the paneling into an infinity mirror…
Failure, Re-calibration, and Iteration – Noah Hillman
This week I didn’t run into any enormous problems but rather some smaller hurdles that I was able to solve relatively quickly. I cut and engraved all the acrylic sheets for the addressable LEDs to Illuminate. There was no easy way to tell what power/speed settings would make the designs come out as expected in…
Maquette – Layered Light Show
This week I worked on getting some WS2812b addressable LEDs I had laying around functioning with a basic arduino uno. To generate the LED patterns I am using Syncstrip which plays back a .png by pixel row real time with a song using a MS Visual Studio and C#. After messing with the program for…
Noah Hillman – Concept Proposal
The goal for this project is to create an link between audio and visual using sound visualizers and illuminated paneling. The piece will be made up of stacked acrylic or other clear plastic with engraved shapes/images. A diffused addressable LED strip will surround and illuminate each plastic sheet which can be illuminated independently. The LEDS…
Luftwerk – Light Artists
Luftwerk is a studio founded in 2007 by Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero in Chicago. Their studio creates immersive light shows that explore the viewers perception of light, color, and space using various tools. Video, Light, Shadows, Sound, and custom sculptures are all used to create a canvas for light where one wouldn’t be normally….
Introduction & Portfolio – Noah Hillman
Hello, I am Noah Hillman, a senior here at WPI doing a double major with Robotics and Mechanical Engineering. Although I do not have an extensive artistic background, I have taken basic drawing/painting classes growing up and enjoyed them greatly. For this reason, I choose do to my humanities in art, where I have taken…