Re: [Synthesis] Camera Obscura San Francisco, an analog way to bring the sky into the interior

Fyi, some interesting links of projects that seems relevant to our previous conversation. 

1. Magic of Flying
- Bringing movements in the sky into the interior of the Brickyard

2. Inflating Trash Bags Rhythmically Mimic Ocean Waves

Much appreciated,
Cooper


On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Garth Paine <Garth.Paine@asu.edu> wrote:
Hi all

There is some interesting work in sky lights in amplifying light amplitude. Can I suggest someone take a look at that area?  Networked Prisms might be an interesting approach for instance.  Perhaps they could be servo/stepper motor controller to redirect light streams into different parts of the space. Modeling this would be an interesting exercise. . 

Cheers Garth
Sent on the Move

On 1 Jul 2014, at 10:22, "Sha Xin Wei" <shaxinwei@gmail.com> wrote:

I love the idea.  But we explored that in TML circa 2002-2004 in Atlanta, and circa 2005-2006 in Montreal.
I’m happy to review the techniques that we investigated, all of which involved more labor than available without access to maquiladora hands.

It’s worth Matt or Kevin posting the architectural techniques that are in actual use for light guides.  Apparently the solutions cost nontrivial $ or labor.    James Turrell has apparently made some study of this ...

Xin Wei



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On Jun 30, 2014, at 5:33 PM, Michael Krzyzaniak <mkrzyzan@asu.edu> wrote:

My favorite website, Alibaba.com (China's largest website... they keep trying to buy yahoo), has tons of plastic optical fibre for sale, which would be a great, energy efficient way to move light around in a modular way. Perhaps one end could be coupled to the window and the other end could be put wherever light is needed?

http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product_en&CatId=&SearchText=Plastic+optical+fiber

Mike


On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Michael Krzyzaniak <mkrzyzan@asu.edu> wrote:
I have heard that it is possible to purchase enormous fibre-optic cables for cheap. Some DC capstones were working on just this a few semesters ago, but I think they sadly gave it up for something else...

Mike


On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Sha Xin Wei <shaxinwei@gmail.com> wrote:
Relevant to the discussion of how to bring natural light into the interior of the Brickyard commons:

Camera Obscura San Francisco 

is an analog way to bring the sky into the interior of a building.
The building is specially built for that purpose.

But pinholes do work too, and presage quantum mechanics.  Hence this could be another turn in the endless spiral between art, techne, and science.

Xin Wei
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