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March 06, 2005
The Shiny Balls Mirror
Shiny Balls Mirror is a large physical object made of 900 hollow metal tubes with polished chrome balls placed in them. The whole piece has the form of a large hexagon. This system is being developed to be a large display. Each hollow tube and shiny ball are one pixel in the display. This pixel has the ability to change its brightness by moving the chrome ball in (darker) or out (brighter) of the tube. A few interesting points about this display are the fact that it uses an hexagonal grid for the pixels rather than rectangular, also interesting is the fact that this display serves as a mirror in the way it reflects the viewer as a whole, but also it reflects the viewer 900 times on the shiny balls, making the positive content of the display (the bright pixels) the viewers themselves.
Posted by Ryan at March 6, 2005 12:12 PM