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Stunning Installation Lets Visitors Control Laser-Projected Patterns On 12,000 Spheres

FLUIDIC is a floating point cloud of translucent spheres that turns visitors' movements into waves of undulating light patterns.

If you wanted an experience to make you feel like some kind of omnipotent being who could command the physical world at their will, then this interactive installation, from designers WHITEvoid and Hyundai's Advanced Design Center, should do the trick. Called FLUIDIC it's an impressive-looking piece that offers further proof that TRON was a harbinger of the future.

Created for Milan Design Week it was unveiled yesterday at the Temporary Museum for New Design. Not only does it look incredible, like some kind of alien comminication system, but it employs lasers to do so, which racks up the awesome factor to at least 11. Using multiple 3D cameras the piece can sense visitors, and the floating point cloud moves based on their presence and gestures, making the sculpture dance in a manner remniscent of Mickey Mouse and his Fantasia symphony.

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Like many before it, it takes inspiration from nature reflecting the "natural ebb and flow of life" (of course)  to create a "highly organic and natural distribution of voxels". It has 12,000 spheres which act as the interactive stage/backdrop, creating an abstract 3D enviroment so visitors can manifest their delusions of godhood—their movements are then translated into light patterns and fired off onto the spheres using eight high-powered laser projections to create 3D graphics.

WHITEvoid has created other equally impressive interactive light sculptures, including Living Sculpture 3D where the wave-like luminence of a ceiling installation can be controlled using an iPad. Along with Crystal Chandelier, a piece installed in a department store in Moscow, which has a circadian cycle that mimicks that of a work day, hybernating at night.

Images courtesy of WHITEvoid

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