Flyfire
Imagine the pixels of your computer screen breaking away and surrounding you in a brilliant swarm of three-dimensional digital information and imagery? This is exactly what the project Flyfire, imagined by researchers at MIT’s SENSEable City Lab and ARES Lab, attempts to achieve. Flyfire uses remote controlled, self-organizing, choreographed “mini helicopters.” Each helicopter contains small LEDs which function as a physical pixel in 3D space. “Flyfire opens up exciting possibilities: as on a conventional screen, pixels can change color, but now they can also move, creating a transient trace of light in three-dimensional space,” said team member Carnaven Chiu. “Unlike traditional displays that can only be seen from the front, Flyfire becomes a three dimensional immersive display that can be experienced from all directions.” Flyfire is conceived as an installation of pixels that recharge every few minutes and perform in public space. Recent advances in battery technology and wireless control make Flyfire a possibility. It brings visual communication a step closer towards ‘smart dust’ — the idea that computing is becoming increasingly smaller, addressable, pervasive, and persuasive.
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Raster Image Display and Zoom-transformation of pixels.
