Drzach Suchy’s Shadow Clouds (or, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Rapid Prototyping)
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pIn IRaiders of the Lost Ark/I there was an amulet attached to the Staff of Ra. When you placed the staff in a particular place in the Map Room and the sun was in a certain position, it would shine a beam pointing directly to the hidden location of the Well of Souls./p
pDrzach Suchy, the architect cryptographer/software engineer behind the wicked A HREF=”http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/not_so_fast_ombrae_17466.asp” Ombrae display/A we showed you last week, have taken the idea of light + shadows + timing + location a few steps further with their A HREF=”http://drzachsuchy.ch/shadow-cloud/” Shadow Clouds project/A. A written description would be complicated, but the vid explains it succinctly:/p
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pDrzach and Suchy envision their RP’d cubes being used for signage, but we think the architectural possibilities would also be cool, a la IRaiders/I; you could get different interior projections at different times of day, depending on where the sun was. I’d start simple, with a frowny face at the start of the workday and a smiley face at quitting time./p
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