3.01.2007

Idea #7



I had a new idea today completely removed from the direction we are going. I'm not suggesting we do this, merely getting the idea documented in some form.
I was playing with the idea of a interactive system similiar to
the slider puzzles we used to play with as kids.
But using a lighting system instead of tiles. This would consist of several "puck" type lights as well as some sort of board or object to house and deliver power to these pucks.
The interactivity or rearrangement (which is I guess how we are choosing to define interactive in this case...) is very similiar to a Lite Brite, perhaps the most reconfigurable of all lights.

The real trick is to place it on an object that will introduce some element of dynamics into the situation. In this case we are using a bug eye type device, as long as all the pucks are attached to each other (ala our slider puzzle method) the sphere should hold it form. Along with some help from a spherical underlayment that houses the power and magnetic connection.


The bug eye effect gives the whole surface as swarming, moving effect even when the pucks are not being rearranged. The renderings show some initial concepts, I'm thinking about 4' tall with pucks of about 3" in dia. (shown as balls in this case), sorry I didn't have time to make a scaler.

Here you see, the representations of the pucks arrayed around the spherical object (yellow in this case)

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