LOOK!!! Up in the sky it's a bird, it's a plane, no it's these little LED copters making a picture. I know what your thinking, "I can't believe he just used a cheesy line for his opening topic. But this by far the most interesting topic that I have ever read. The next generation of Art Illusion using technology. A device that the SENSEable City and ARES Labs at MIT are working on.
MIT has created a device called Flyfire that hovers in the air carrying Autonomous LED in the little copters to create a beautiful image. They take a digital image and group the image into tiny dots of different colors making the digital image into a huge picture within mid air. One of the great steps within this device, as you can see in the Mona Lisa picture from up top, is the whole image is 360 degrees. The reason for this is on the copper hanging from the propellers is a ball that puts out the dot color that is needed displaying a full output instead of a one sided image.
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The helicopter is a small device about the size of a golf ball and has different color-changing LED within the device. The instruments that are use within the chopper are small and there is talk that nano-technology is going to be put into play within these devices to make them even smaller than they already are.
Here is a brief video about the devices and what they can do.
Thanks goes out to Popular Science Online for the heads up about the flyfire related to this article.
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