{"id":18474,"date":"2012-07-05T12:36:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T12:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18474"},"modified":"2012-07-05T12:54:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T12:54:37","slug":"point-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/18474","title":{"rendered":"Point Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18475\" title=\"Point Cloud\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/point_cloud.jpg\" alt=\"Point Cloud\" width=\"470\" height=\"707\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Point Cloud, by James Leng, is a sculptural form defined by a thin wire mesh that breathes weather data, driven asynchronously by 8 individual servos controlled via Arduino.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/42896836?color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"470\" height=\"264\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As whiteness of the hanging structure begins to disappear into the background, the viewer is treated to a constantly morphing swarm of black points dancing through midair.\u00a0In the current prototype, the speed, smoothness, and direction of rotation are modulated to interpret a live feed of weather data.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of displaying static values of temperature, humidity, or precipitation, Point Cloud performs the data, dynamically shifting between stability and turbulence, expansion and contraction.<\/p>\n<p title=\"Creative Applications Network\">Via <a title=\"Creative Applications Network\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creativeapplications.net\/objects\/point-cloud-by-james-lang-arduino-controlled-structure-breathes-weather-data\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Applications Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Point Cloud, by James Leng, is a sculptural form defined by a thin wire mesh that breathes weather data, driven asynchronously by 8 individual servos controlled via Arduino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,45],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18474"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18480,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18474\/revisions\/18480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}