r/woahdude • u/Antique-Composer • 4d ago
video Another shot of a recent piece (sound warning)
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u/dkode80 4d ago
Master control program from Tron
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u/Antique-Composer 4d ago
A true compliment, thank you!
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u/BlK-kt-7578 4d ago
Super cool , but what is it ?
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u/Antique-Composer 4d ago
I usually refer to it a ‘spinny string’. Technically it’s fiber optic being spun by a BLDC motor, and it’s a scaled down study for a future Art direction. Similar to some physics demos on standing waves.
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u/chillysanta 4d ago
I was just thinking how much cooler this would be is 40x larger. Idk if safe, but ya me like spinny light alot alot, make cave mind go ooooohhhhhh.
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u/fireandbass 4d ago
Bigger would be cooler, but it could spin like a weed whacker and take out a whole room Ghost Ship style.
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u/Pinksters 4d ago
I wish that movie didn't totally shit the bed after the opening scene.
Fun Fact: Emily Browning, the little girl from Ghost Ship(2002), went on to lead as Babydoll in the movie Sucker Punch(2011)
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u/Frankthetank8 4d ago
The science museum of minnesota has massive three story tall ones with steel cable
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u/RizzardOfOz76 3d ago
Wondering if you’d share your materials plans for this as I’d love to build one for my office?
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u/brainbutter3 4d ago
Wow. That sound gave me a DMT flashback.
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u/Antique-Composer 4d ago
So you’ve been to hyperspace :) the slow pitch increase to infinity is always a nice reintroduction haha.
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u/Stonyclaws 4d ago
How big can you make one of those? I would volunteer to be the first to pass through 🖐️
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u/StillJustJones 4d ago
Your garage is fully giving me Doc Brown from BTTF flavours….
It looks great! (Your art obviously, your garage is nice too… but your art is superb)
I saw you said it is a prototype for a larger installation. Will the larger piece be interactive, so visitors can push the spinny thing into different shapes or will it some kind of preprogrammed performance?
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u/Antique-Composer 4d ago
Such praise haha. It’s actually my basement studio space in Eugene OR, part of Foxlight Labs. I actually made a long version a few years back, but I’m more interested in exploring the shape change of the string during a mode switch, so this is made specifically to explore that. So probably a programmed routine in the final piece.
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u/StillJustJones 4d ago
Programmed makes sense, or it will when you work out with the most static patterns are.
Could you make it responsive to music, singing or speech?
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u/nodnodwinkwink 4d ago
I like how it looks of course but that high pitched sound would drive me crazy. Is it mainly coming from the motor or from a bearing?
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u/Antique-Composer 4d ago
The motor and motor are a little mismatched, I’m upgrading that soon so hopefully the noise intensity will be reduced.
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u/FluffyCheese 4d ago
Really cool to see how you're inducing different standing wave patterns! Also a very cool piece! Imaging it looks even better in person...
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u/Chaserivx 3d ago
This is cool, it's a derivative of this original: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-string-of-pisces-a-kinetic-art-lamp
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u/Antique-Composer 3d ago
Similar, though I would say both this piece and that consumer product are both derivative of the classic physics standing wave demo
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u/entoaggie 3d ago
You, sir, make cool things. Kinda like a Winamp plugin irl. Or a digital version of a Ruben’s tube. So cool.
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u/MossWatson 2d ago
What color is the actual string? Is the red/yellow effect a phenomenon of the spinning, or does the string actually have two colors?
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u/Antique-Composer 2d ago
It’s a clear fiber optic being fed by a topside RGB laser (prior versions used an LED). So it can be any color!
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