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Hello Light Painting Meet Synchronous Robotics

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Synchronous Dissections – Workshop from Kruysman-Proto on Vimeo.

This 5 day workshop couples synchronous robotics with advanced animation techniques, exploring new analytical and representational possibilities. The task was to use the SCI-Arc Robot House’s unique configuration to dynamically disassemble and re-assemble through methods of synchronous robotic movement.

The result was a series of suspended light drawings.
**Absolutely no video editing done to the drawings. Simply a series of still images…

Robot Control Software: esperantorobotics.com
Research Institution: sciarc.edu, estm.us

Instructors: Brandon Kruysman & Jonathan Proto thecognomen.net
Students:

TeamA: Al Ataide, Mehrzad Rafeei, Somayyeh Ramezani, Peter Vikar
TeamB: Amir Habibabadi, Francisco Moure, Juan Osorio
TeamC: Peter Kaoud, Eugene Kosgoron, Mira Lee

Eye,Robot (Student Compilation) from Kruysman-Proto on Vimeo.

Compilation of student work from our Eye,Robot Seminar at SCI-Arc Fall 2012.

Course: Eye,Robot : Introduction to Robotics

“Eye, Robot” focuses on the intersection of computation, robotic fabrication, and cinematography. The course explores robotic motion control as a creative medium for designers, mainly through the use of the custom robotic animation software platform, designed specifically for the SCI-Arc Robot House. The platform has the unique ability for the designer not only to design motion, but also to program, simulate, and speculate all at the same time. This type of animation space suspends the distinction between simulation, speculation, and ‘the real’, making it very hard for one to determine which is which while questioning traditional notions of architectural representation.

Instructors: Brandon Kruysman, Jonathan Proto

Institution: The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)

Students: (included in compilation)
Anass Benhachmi, William Hu, Viola Ago, David Eskenazi, Ryan Tyler Martinez, Alex Phi, Rafael Ruiz, Philippe Arias, Scott Starr, Chris Jimenez, Zhexiong Hu, Shitong Zhang, Jack Gaumer, Nicholas Barger, Rangel Karaivanov, Andrew Kragness, Chheng Lim, Matthew Asfaw, Jung Huang, Brian Harms, Haejun Jung, Yuying Chen, Daniela Arriagada, Antonio Follo, Kervin Lau, Maria Setaro, Simon Alvarez, Naomi Scully

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Light Painting Refractograph Tutorial

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Refractography Tutorial

Light painting photographer Rob Turney uses light, refraction, and long exposure light painting techniques to create some awesomely abstract and colorful works of art like these.

I contacted Rob and asked how the F#@!??? He said if I stopped cursing at him he would put together a tutorial to show the rest of us how…. a few weeks later and boom, we have this gift from Rob! A detailed tutorial how to create Refractographs just like Rob and Rob’s inspiration Mr. Alan Jaras. Thank you Mr. Turney you are awesome!

Refractograph Tutorial from Rob Turney on Vimeo.

Jason D. Page, Light Painter (Trailer)

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I rarely post my own projects up on the LPP site seeing that I am the admin for it and want to keep the site as legit and selfless as possible. This is a project that has been years in the making and we are entering the editing stages so I’m pretty excited about it and so I’m breaking my own rule. Hope you enjoy.

Jason D. Page, Light Painter (Trailer) from Jason D. Page on Vimeo.

This is a trailer for a documentary about my light painting work created by my good friend Jacob Peterson. The full length documentary will hopefully be finished up in a few months.

Please comment and let me know what you think good or bad, “like” it if you do, and PLEASE SHARE IT!

THANK YOU.

jasondpage.com/

Song is “Outro” by M83

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Canons New 35mm Sensor Can Film In the Dark

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Suck on that Nikon…. ok now relax just kidding Nikon is awesome too, but Canon has developed a new sensor that can basically see in the dark. This beast can take the light from the moon and make it look like the middle of the day. Its not like the old green night vision, the images that this super light sensitive sensor can capture are pretty damn clear and very impressive. It says it was developed for DSLR video work but its got to be great for capturing the stars in you still images as well. Think of the new ways that you can capture and document your light painting work with this new sensor technology! Pretty Awesome. Below is the info direct from Canon.

TOKYO, March 4, 2013—Canon Inc. announced today that the company has successfully developed a high-sensitivity 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor exclusively for video recording. Delivering high-sensitivity, low-noise imaging performance, the new Canon 35 mm CMOS sensor*1 enables the capture of Full HD video even in exceptionally low-light environments.

The newly developed CMOS sensor features pixels measuring 19 microns square in size, which is more than 7.5-times the surface area of the pixels on the CMOS sensor incorporated in Canon’s top-of-the-line EOS-1D X and other digital SLR cameras. In addition, the sensor’s pixels and readout circuitry employ new technologies that reduce noise, which tends to increase as pixel size increases. Thanks to these technologies, the sensor facilitates the shooting of clearly visible video images even in dimly lit environments with as little as 0.03 lux of illumination, or approximately the brightness of a crescent moon—a level of brightness in which it is difficult for the naked eye to perceive objects. When recording video of astral bodies, while an electron-multiplying CCD,*2 which realizes approximately the same level of perception as the naked eye, can capture magnitude-6 stars, Canon’s newly developed CMOS sensor is capable of recording faint stars with a magnitude of 8.5 and above.*3

Using a prototype camera employing the newly developed sensor, Canon successfully captured a wide range of test video,*4 such as footage recorded in a room illuminated only by the light from burning incense sticks (approximately 0.05–0.01 lux) and video of the Geminid meteor shower. The company is looking to such future applications for the new sensor as astronomical and natural observation, support for medical research, and use in surveillance and security equipment. Through the further development of innovative CMOS sensors, Canon aims to expand the world of new imaging expression.

Canon Marketing Japan Inc. will be exhibiting a prototype camera that incorporates the newly developed 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor and sample footage captured with the camera at SECURITY SHOW 2013 (www.shopbiz.jp/en/ss/), which will be held from Tuesday, March 5, to Friday, March 8, at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center in Tokyo, Japan.

February Light Painting Contest Winner

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And the winner is…..

February Light Painting Contest 29

Oliver Kretschmann for the above kinetic light painting image.

Here is Olivers description of how the image was created:

My entry for the february contest has been taken from the series “Walk in the light park”. I captured a row ofpark lanterns in my hometown Emmerich (Germany). I used the zoomlens and a strict rectangular movement of the camera to create this spatial-architectural illusion. The series contains nearly 40 photos in which I try to explore many different variantions of this setting and theme.

You can find a selection of the series and much more on my flickr-site: www.flickr.com/photos/kreto170

Click the link the images in this series are pretty awesome.

LPP would like to say a special THANK YOU to all the students that participated in this months contest!

Click here to see the theme for the next light painting photography contest and how you can enter to win.