For the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games we worked in collaboration with Cause and Affect on this origami light chandelier for the Vancouver House.
101 origami globes were folded by Joseph Wu (Vancouver origami artist) and arranged in a spherical pattern. A custom light system was designed and fabricated to make every origami globe an independently controllable light source capable of generating any colour combination imaginable. We worked with Danjel van Tijn on the custom programming of the lights sequence using Processing, DMX and our own custom Arduino/DMX board.
An interactive table also designed by us had control of the light chandelier and every interaction with the table send a signal to the chandelier and made it light up in a shade of blue or green. While there was no interaction the chandelier had a simple generative pattern that animated the lights.
The system was controlled from a Processing application that sent DMX to the chandelier.
























