Available to be played with here: xu.yih0.com/aniRGB
So everything works! I just needed to change the exact requirements for the app. I communicated with the AI many times over this and got pretty decent recommendations.
Issue last week: light just don’t work this way. If red colored lights are on, only non-red colored arrows are going to be visible – but my “plan” was to only have red arrows present.
So, I either give up the physical aspect of this and use programs to simulate this – I don’t know if deviating from how light actually works still qualifies as Light Art.
Or, I just accept the fact that a certain colored light will make the same colored arrows disappear (become black, so disappear under black background).
My decision? I wanted to go with both approaches. The app supports both.
Here is a demo for each mode, using one of my project’s research data: