Overhead at the new Terminal B.
Part of the curiosity of the installation is how they address each panel from the thin hanging wires.
It appears that multiple panels hang off the same pair of wires, yet they do not blink in vertical unison.
14 responses to “San Jose Airport LCD Art Flickr’n Away”
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I’d bet they don’t even get power from the wires. I have a small LCD blinker and it has a tiny solar cell it gets its power from. Thanks for posting this.
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Nice way to fill in all that empty space….Makes me think of raindrops, no matter how it’s done it is nice….
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Wow…. I agree. On the computer it almost looks like a strange pixel issue. As if these large pixels are "flickring" on and off or in and out of focus. Scintillating scotoma! Did you shoot this with the 5D?? I still have not tried out the video capability of the camera.
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I tried. This is sad, but I spent about three minutes trying to figure how to get the 5D Mark II to take HD video, and couldn’t find a way to get it to record in video mode. Looking at the online tutorial, I can see I was starting in the right direction, but would never have guessed that the start-stop button was the quick dial set button.
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5dMkII video is a monster kluge, but its beautiful. They need a firmware update that enables selecting (via an option menu) the main shutter release button as "roll camera" if you want it that way when in "video mode."
BTW: If you’re just starting to mess with 5dMKII video, I suggest the following:
1) avoid image stabilization (it creates strange "hunting" artifacts that ruin otherwise great shots). Put the camera on a table, the ground, a mail box etc. b/f you resort to IS. If the camera is ROCK STEADY the shots are simply stunning (vista-vision 8 perf 35mm size sensor…2x bigger than a 35mm film cinema frame!). Other benefits of rock-solid cam placement are a) your shots will be crystal clear, and b) takes a huge load off the compression algo which means you will almost never get frame drops/stutter (which happens with this cam occasionally when there is a ton of pixel-delta between the frames)…
2) Fastest way to drop into hand-held video mode once you enable it properly through the menus for "live view": a) set up your shot through the optical finder paying huge attention to focus, b) hit the live view button, c) hit the quick dial set button to start rolling, d) re-stabilize cam with both hands while checking framing for HD aspect ratio and capturing the shot. You can get this left-thumb>right-thumb motion down to less than a second and it works for everything except , a) using focal lengths longer than ~50mm (which requires IS/tripod/surface-mount), b) where you have to adjust focus during the shot (a very sub-optimal process that I’m not going into here).
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FYI, they are all individually addressed – the patterns are generated based on realtime weather data from around the world and every pixel is addressable.
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Do you know how they are addressed? There appear to be two wires in each column, serving multiple panels… or do my eyes deceive me, and there are multiple cables in there? If not, does each panel have multiplexing logic embedded within? I thought they would be off-the-shelf "dumb" screens…
And looking the the cool photos here, it appears that they prototype with separate wires to each screen… So, somehow they fit all the wires into what appears to be only two per column in the final installation.
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Wired did a cool article and video on it and few others art projects :
These Transit Terminals Boast Art That’s Worth the TripThanks for the link with the photos Steve. Great Art project !!! Seems like 2 per column yes..
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