Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Live sound visualization with fire

Infernoptic

Most modern screens and displays are comprised of a grid of tightly-packed pixels, and by turning precise combinations of pixels on and off, complex moving images are formed. Now just substitute a 6" fireball for each of those demure little pixels, and the image jumps from the screen in licks and bursts of flame. That's the idea behind the latest creation from NAO, the Infernoptix Digital Pyrotechnic Matrix. Matrix because the screen is comprised of a grid 12 pixels wide by 7 pixels high, and Digital because to operate all 84 pixels in such elaborate ways requires a bit of digital processing. That processing starts with custom software, developed exclusively for the Infernoptix, and running on PC or Mac. Five separate modes allow a variety of effects from the screen, as well as the ability to perform the on-the-fly tuning that is necessary with complex pyrotechnics.

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