Cassie's first blog

Hello all. I am back from my studio trip to San Francisco. Good times!
Anyhoo...I am still very interested in creating some sort of lighting fixture or illumination device. I keep on playing with different ideas in my head, but now I'm going to put them out for other people's advice...

At first I was thinking about creating a light field out of a series of smaller individual lights. My first thoughts were to have several of these really light delicate strands hanging from the branches of a tree with a tiny glowing orb at the end, kind of like fireflies. But then the whole issue of powering the lights has deterred me a bit.

I love tessellations. So another idea is to create a series of tessellating modules out of some type of translucent material and create some type of fixture. Powering the LEDs or mini-lamps with batteries. If I were to work on the module idea connecting the pieces could lend to some sort of kinetic variable. That might be something for me to look into more.

I have some wire, mini lamps, and batteries that I got from radio shack. So I am going to do a little bit of testing tomorrow.
I am also going to look for LED wholesalers so Gia can do a little bit of her magic and see if we can get some for free.

When I was looking up tessellation stuff I found this and thought it was kind of cool. Even though I am not interested in creating strong shadows with the light, I still thought I would share.
http://www.bugman123.com/Math/ShadowProjection.m1v

Also Matt, could I get some of those site images at the higher resolution?

-cassie