Thursday, October 21, 2010

Fly Fire

SENSEable City Laboratory in collaboration with ARES Lab

Flyfire utilizes micro controlled helicopters embedded with LEDs in order to construct a field capable of displaying information in 3-Dimesions. Programmed with self-organizing behavior and precise controlling technology developed by the ARES Lab, these ‘pixels’ are able to be reconfigured in real time and adaptable to a variety of scenarios. Currently being developed as a means to liberate current digital display methods from static configurations and physical constraints the future of this technology lends itself to be a mechanism in the construction of spatial sequences and narratives both in and outside of entertainment media. In specific relation to architecture its present state demonstrates what it might be like to use a single media source to present information not only two dimensions but to generate that data immediately in three dimensions. Given that, it’s true potential lies not in its ability to represent information but rather in the possibility to construct continually shifting three dimensional spaces.



(image source: http://senseable.mit.edu/flyfire/)
(image source: http://senseable.mit.edu/flyfire/)



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