A friend pointed me to this today - Radiohead’s new video “House of Cards” from their latest album In Rainbows.  “No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. 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.” You can view it here and manipulate the data with your mouse to create your own interpretation of the visualization using the data points that make up Thom Yorke’s face.  Data and instructions on how to create your own visualizations is available to download from the site as well. 

A friend pointed me to this today - Radiohead’s new video “House of Cards” from their latest album In Rainbows. 

“No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. 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.”

You can view it here and manipulate the data with your mouse to create your own interpretation of the visualization using the data points that make up Thom Yorke’s face. 

Data and instructions on how to create your own visualizations is available to download from the site as well.