We've finally got our movie-playing technology sorted, which means we can at last show this video of Bitfall, the rain-printing machine developed by Julius Popp of Spherical Robots.
The movie shows the machine in action during the Nuit Blanche festival in Paris 2005. Above: simulation of Bitfall. Below: diagram showing how the magnetic valves produce water droplets that create moving imagery.
There's a short documentary about Popp and Bitfall over on YouTube. Popp's website is down at the moment so this description of Bitfall is from Information Aesthetics:
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Bitfall is "a physical water sculpture with 128 synchronized magnetic valves, so that a wall of falling water drops can be perceived as a graphical bitmap matrix. A computer application selects currently popular keywords from news websites, & displays them on the transparent 'information curtain'. the 'information flow' metaphor literally demonstrates the dynamic & ever-changing character of continuous information streams from which users build their associated experiences."
ahah very entertaining :D
v cool !
very nice, but from whom is this music?
magic
Underwater love by smoke city
Totally superbe!
j. mayer h. from 1996 with the town house. come on are you boring. show sth new not stolen stuff…
Rain on me, beautiful
Gianni
Could anyone help me
I want to know whether it is possible such a thing but where could I find it is there any producer factory who makes a bitfall?
please email me
shad.ehsan@gmail.com
We have it in Singapore!
It’s at Raffles City right at the center of the atrium!
very nice!!!! interesting piece of functional art with wit and childish idea. i hope to see one of it in cagayan de oro.