4DLO
Finally it’s up: The fabulous Four-Dimensional Light Orchestra, featuring – you! Stop by MoMath and sing or make funny noises into the 4DLO! Here it is in quiescent state, a scripted sequence of patterns:
4DLO — the fabulous Four-Dimensional Light Orchestra is up and running! For me the piece shows off different sub-symmetries of the 24-cell (more on this below), but the best part, really, is that 4DLO responds to singing and funny noises. It’s a lot of fun!
I’ll be adding more about it and its process, but for the moment, here a webapp that shows how the geometry is laid out. I designed the lighting for the sculpture itself from within this app — it can output a simple file format that the code running the lighting can interpret. You’ll notice the controls for it floating out of place at the upper right of this window.
You’ll notice in the controls that you can “rotate” this picture in 4D — for a physical sculpture we had to choose a particular orientation.
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