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July 16, 2008
Radiohead's new way of seeing without cameras
Wow, I don't know which I like better, the song by Radiohead, or this trippy new video that is so fluid and just right for the song. Apparently no cameras were used for "House of Cards". Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data:
Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.
"House of Cards" by Radiohead
Directed by James Frost
From the album IN RAINBOWS
More info here, along with this cool "Making of the House of Cards" video:
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Some suggest that photography needs a new name. If this technology is an indicator of the future, I’d have to agree. Something unique happens when the geeks and the artists start converging. I’m not usually a fan of music videos — they always seem to be too “something”. But this one really connects with the music (gotta love Radiohead), and it works.
The one thing that really struck me is that we have scientists and engineers going out of their way to make precise, crystal-clear data. And artists show up to throw some grit in their machines. I love it.