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Movie: digital graphics company Crystal CG has sent us its animated flights over the city that TV broadcasters are using to zoom between venues for the London 2012 Olympics.

Developed with the BBC but made available to international stations, the 15-25 second fly-throughs incorporate some of London’s major landmarks as well as the main Olympic venues.

The company also created the visuals displayed on 70,500 paddles held by the audience at the opening ceremony (above). Each seat was equipped with a Pixel Tablet, designed by Tait Technologies and bearing nine full-colour pixels arranged in a square, to transform the whole stadium and audience into a 360 degree screen.

“We are witnessing the end of the traditional video screen – this will transform the way event content is presented in future, becoming a more immersive experience,” said Crystal CG’s creative director Will Case. “The audience literally became part of the action. No longer limited by large flat screens, we were presented with the challenge of creating animations to bring the stage and the spectators together.”

See our story about the unveiling of Thomas Heatherwick’s Olympic Cauldrom at the opening ceremony here and see all our stories about the London 2012 Olympics here.

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Dezeen Wire: researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris have designed software that can look at a photo and identify the city in which it was taken by recognising building typologies.

The software uses images extracted from Google Street View to cross-reference architectural elements like balconies, windows and street signs and identify patterns unique to particular locations.

This movie explains how it works:

Visit the project website for more information »

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London studio Logical Art has created a series of papery necklaces with delicate cut-out patterns (+ movie).

They may look fragile, but the Air Tattoos are made of a tough paper-like material that’s waterproof and resistant to tearing.

Each one was developed from a hand drawing and simply clips around the neck by slotting one end through the other.

The designers are now raising money for production in exchange for pre-orders through crowd-funding platform Kickstarter.

Logical Art are the designers behind the Empty Memory USB necklaces that were among the bestselling products at our pop-up shop The Temporium in December. Take a look at them here.

See more stories about jewellery on Dezeen here and check out our Pinterest board on the topic here.

Here’s some more information from Logical Art:

Air Tattoo – A new body decoration concept.

London based design studio Logical Art has launched a new project Air Tattoo on the famous crowd funding website – Kickstarter.

Air Tattoo is a collection of wearable art pieces for decorating body and clothes. It enables you to wear a beautiful delicate “drawing” as a piece of paper jewellery. the patterns came from the original drawings of logical art designers.

The material is a special eco-friendly paper. It keeps all the great quality of normal paper (soft texture, light weight, beautiful tension), yet it is very strong. It is light, comfortable, and perfectly fit to your body (neck and shoulders) with our smart fitting design. It is also water-resistant/tear-resistant material, strong enough to wear, even for rainy days. It enables you to wear air tattoo multiple times. The texture is like a leather-piece which has its own quality of volume, like leather. The more you wear, the more leather-like looking it will be.

The idea behind this project is to convert delicate hand-drawn patterns into an air-like “tattoo”. It is something that can decorate the surface of both body and clothes.

The process of this project is very closely related to the “hand” and “craft” element, which gives a intimate feeling of the art work; yet in the same time the production process and material chosen comes with very practical industrial thinking, allowing the beautiful “wearable art” to be provided with a relative low price tag in fashion industry.

Logical Art is a London based Design Studio founded by product designers Hanhsi Chen & Yoo-Kyung Shin after their graduation from Royal College of Art in London. Their design ranges from daily objects, personal accessories to furniture and lighting. Logical Art is especially intrigued by the collision of art and design, thus aiming to blend the concept of art, sculpture and painting into quality products with reasonable price.

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This sprinkler by Dutch artist Edwin Deen sprays jets of coloured water to turn a room into a rainbow (+ slideshow + movie).

Deen used a simple garden sprinkler and seven colour pigments to create the small device.

The sprinkler was first shown at the TAG gallery in The Hague and is now on show at Ampelhaus in Rotterdam until 28 August. From 30 August it will be part of exhibition Barry at the W in the W139 gallery in Amsterdam.

We’ve previously featured a window made of glass prisms which cast rainbows on the floor.

Above image is by Niels Post

Photography is by Edwin Deen except where otherwise stated.

Above image is by Ampelhaus

Here’s some more information from the artist:

Edwin Deen, Liquid Rainbow, 2011

Color pigment, an electric tap, a few metres of hose and a plain garden sprinkler. These are the ingredients Edwin Deen used to create something seemingly impossible: he materialised a rainbow. Liquid Rainbow plays with the tension that occurs when the sun on a rainy day sends its rays to the earth and fills the sky with the elusive promise of a rainbow. The heedless visitor never knows when Liquid Rainbow will enter into force, but when the installation is spraying surprise and joy are never far away. The repetition of the spray movement intensifies the seven colors on the white wall. That change is barely perceptible, but provides ‘Liquid Rainbow’ with indeed a tangible dimension.

Edwin Deen (1980, Linschoten, NL) is interested in physical processes and the use of everyday objects and base materials. Through experimentation and aesthetic images he emphasises that which we usually neglect in a graceful and attractive, but interesting way. (Text by Lise Lotte ten Voorde.)

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Movie: architect Piers Gough of CZWG and structural engineer Hanif Kara explain their design for Canada Water Library, a bronzed, hexagonal building on a constrained site in south London, in this movie by filmmakers Living Projects.

Read more about the building in our earlier story, and see more stories about CZWG here.

Living Project also produced a film about the Maggie’s Centre for cancer care that the architects completed last year. Watch the movie here.

See all our stories about libraries »

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