- Optics Ideas
- Head Diffusion Box: A large sphere you put your head inside and the LEDs emanate from different points to try to diffuse your head shadows
- Diffusion Sphere: Use semi translucent paper in one sphere and LEDs outside it, all inside a larger sphere to diffuse it. Light source outside will hopefully minimize shadow. Maybe add fog?
- Defocusing Blue: Three white projectors on the walls showing static images (maybe even like, lenses and stencils and a flashlight). There is a rotating band of color filters that makes it monochromatic, but the colors keep swapping. You see the image get less blurry over time then sharply become more blurry, but its just the colors that are changing. [Inspired by Seeing Blue]
- Wave propagation: Fill the room with fog and use a projector to visualize light (of large wavelengths that we can’t actually see) propagating, like EM or wifi
- Blowing into a wall of toeglo light: In fog, visualize the fluid dynamics.
- Lightning coming down from the cloud
- Piano-synced Cloud Colors
- Strobing to increase/control/respond to heart rate
- Project heart rate flashing across the room
- Video that Plays Guitar When You Strum: Either play preprogrammed sound or infer chords from hand position
- Theremin with Light
- Other ideas
- Electric Magic: Charge yourself up and ground yourself with the floor, then
- Shopping List
- White paint options
- Stuart Semple’s Whitest White 2 and Blackest Black 3
- Rosco Matte White Paint: Rosco is a renowned manufacturer in the theater and film industry. Their matte white paint is used for backdrops, props, and sets where a non-reflective surface is needed. It is highly pigmented for maximum light scattering.
- Spectral Paints - White Flat Zero Gloss Paint: This type of paint is designed to have no gloss at all, resulting in minimal reflections and shadows.
- Krylon Ultraflat White: Krylon's Ultraflat White spray paint is known for its very matte finish and ability to evenly distribute light.
- Inspirations
- Seeing Blue: Playing with the over-sharpening of blue by the visual cortex, demo’ed via https://calebkruse.com/10-projects/seeing-blue/
- The Fractal Nature of Spectral Darkness Paper: If you have a random electrical field, slices give a speckle pattern, and in 3d they look like vortices/rings/tubes
- Parallax effect: Exploiting your 2D inference to make a scene seem 3D, like this parallax phone app demo (moves with your face): https://youtu.be/K2XMuj3LimI?t=469
- James Turrell
- Markus Greiner’s Art
- “Your Color Memory" by Olafur Eliasson
- Materials We Have on 6/24/23
- Currently
- LXM translucent paper
- Projector
- Sun lamp
- Cloud
- Bookshelf light
- Flower lights
- LED Multicolor Lightbulbs (x2)
- Warm Lightbulbs
- Toeglo Laser Machines
- Mini smoke machine for water
- Fog machine
- Diffuser paper
- Polarized plastic sheets (3x)
- Small LED strip
- Glasses with LEDs
- Diffusor white paper
- Lightup Poi Balls
- VR
- LED strings
- IR reader
- Pulse oximeter
- Quest 2 Headset
- Sun lamp
- UV flashlight
- Batteries
- Bought today, arrived
- Rectangular fishtank
- Microcontrollers (Arduinos)
- LEDs
- Breadboards
- Cables
- Circular LEDs with programmable pixels
- Large individually addressable LED strip
- Small fan
- Soldering irons
- Blackest black paint
- Matte white paint
- Mini fishbowl
- Diffuser tubes
- At MIT
- Red translucent plastic
- Large neon strip (temporary)
- Buy for next time
- Flourophores
- Flourescent markers
- Bigger UV light