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| " I / O Bulb"
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| John Underkoffler, Daniel Chak,
Benjamin Fielding-Piper, Angela Chang, Gustavo Santos, Ishii
Hiroshi
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I/O Bulb was conceived as a kind of light bulb that would give new
digital meaning to surfaces in architectural space and to the manipulation
of objects on it. If the light bulb invented by Edison one hundred
years ago was a device meant to cast a single 1x1 pixel of light in
order to illuminate a room, the I/O bulb creates high resolution and
bi-directional light flows. It collects photons from architectural
surfaces, uses domain knowledge (such as urban planning) to interpret
the light patterns and calculate "digital shadow and light" matching
the application, and projects them onto physical space. Urp is an
example of how this might be applied to urban planning. Actual architectural
models are placed on a table illuminated with I/O bulbs and shadows
are cast according to computer calculations. By adjusting the clock
it is possible to check the movements of the shadows and simulate
light refraction. In addition, air currents are rendered visible and
a wind gauge can be used to measure the wind speed at any point. Using
I/O bulbs to project real-time computer simulations onto physical
models makes it possible to understand and directly manipulate digitally
rendered urban spaces in a world contiguous with the space of one's
own body.
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June 23 (Friday) - July 9 (Sundayday), 2000 [Finished]
Gallery A 
Artists' Talk
