Tuesday, September 26, 2006

flashing facade



in any major cities, one sight one can not escape is the use of state of the art LED lighting. its lifespan long, able to produce spectrum of colours, and can even orchestrated into a light show with proper programming. the problem is, while our cities become increasingly more colourful, our sense becomes more numb as we are losing our feelings towards some of these vibrant but meaningless pixels.

so when we saw this SPOTS installation at The Park Kolonnaden complex at Postdamer Platz, were instantly attracted to it. so it doesn't have colour, but its simplicity made the message stood out. the system apparently employed DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) system and able to capture images and redisplay them on the facade. interestingly enough, it is using none other than ordinary fluorescent tubes, the magic lies in the electronic control gear (ECG).

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