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Vectorial Elevation is an interactive artwork that allows participants to transform the sky over Vancouver, Canada. Using a three-dimensional interface, this website let's you design huge light sculptures by directing 20 robotic searchlights located around English Bay. A web page is made for each participant with photos of their design from four cameras located around the city.
http://www.vectorialvancouver.net/home.html

Ou, en français
http://www.vectorialvancouver.net/home_fr.html
 
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Already in the Global Spotlight, Vancouver's Skies Deliver Additional Delight
Posted by Lauren Knapp , February 17, 2010
A week before the torch arrived in the Olympic city, Vancouver's skies were already illuminated, ready to greet the world with a warm welcome. Light artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and his team had installed 10 searchlights on both sides of English Bay for an interactive work he calls "Vectorial Elevation."

The lights in this large-scale installation are visible within a 10-mile radius -- each light shines at 10,000 watts -- and anyone with access to the Internet can try his or her hand at changing the projected patterns.

Participants can create a light display on the project's Web site, VectorialVancouver.net, where they will also find a virtual model of Vancouver. Users create instructions for a new night-time display by setting the angles and power of the searchlights. The information is then queued in a server that operates the robotically maneuvered lights. The searchlights quietly project a new image every 12 seconds. For those who can't see it in person, the entire show is captured live via four Web cameras set up around Vancouver... [continued with video]
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2010/02/already-in-the-global-spotlight-vancouvers-skies-deliver-additional-delight.html
 
Rather disappointing, the "designs' look great, the real pictures look nothing like the designs in most cases. :frown:

Not to mention how much energy that must be wasting.
 
I thought that this was a pretty cool idea actually. Never saw it before thanks Ivan.

I for one don't really care at all how much energy they are wasting.
 
They weren't doing anything with that energy anyway, Evo.

We each submitted designs while at work. Yes, we goof off at work from time-to-time.
 
Oh boo I thought you could draw shapes!

I guess I will just do dirty words in morse code.