Lighting Fixture

Amber White Light

Looking at my lamp now and thinking back to my original concept of the moth flying close to the flame effect, I thought I had completely lost and given on that idea.

But looking at my lamp, I can sort of feel the continuity of flow and movement of the acrylic melting. Experimenting and manipulating the materials physical properties from itsown state from hard to liquid and have the power to pause on these properties fascinates me.

I know that I should not show the bare source of the light source since I’m using the clear light bulb too. But I thought that I could position the light bulb at the right location where there is alot of acylic creases melted to one place so there would be less glare. I was close though, but not close enough. I will change to the translucent light bulb and see how it looks

 

Will keep you updated.

 

Bills of Materials

L&I: Class 04

FIRST ATTEMPT

This is my first time ever doing the time-lapse this long [4 hrs]. I was using my own camera and did not expect my camera's battery ran out of battery during the 4 hrs time-lapse. I mean may be after the 5th or 6th hours. I started the time-lapse sequence at 9.30am and the battery died at pm. Nearly there though. 

Location: Bobst Library 10th Floor

Time: 9.30am - 

Date: 02/19/2017

Camera: Lumix GX8

Hmmm....I don't really see any major lighting changes in the room apart from the ceiling flickering a little bit. I would assume that theses small flickers are the result of clouds movements. Is it because where I was has a lot big windows therefore a lot of sunlight coming in, so the changes of the light coming in is too subtle to notice the changes? I was sitting on the 10th floor, overlooking the Washington Square Park. Although, I can't see the main changes of the quality of light through the video, when I was sitting there and doing my homework, lighting in the morning is much softer whereas as the time approached the afternoon, my eyes begin to feel uncomfortable due to stronger sunlight.

 

SECOND ATTEMPT

Location: First Floor Lounge ITP

Time: 12.30am - 16.30pm

Date: 02/21/2017

Camera: Canon 5D

I was hoping to see the light that falls on the tree changes more radically, but the effects didn't come out as I had hoped. I thought that I would capture the light rays that pierced through the tree leaves and make some shadows on the ground. I can see that at the top of the tree's leaves, there is glowy green like the leaves could might have translucent quality in them.

I was aiming for something like this. But then again, these photos might have been enhanced through photoshop. For my lamp design, I think I want to play with the positive and negative space light create with objects in front of it. The skyscrapers time-lapse I captured yesterday, also has this effects.

BONUS

In the spirit of making time-lapse video, I forced myself to wake up super early to catch this amazing sunrise over the skyscrapers.

Location: 605 W 42nd St, NYC

Time: 6.15am

Date: 02/21/2017

Camera: Iphone time-lapse mode

I really like how the color hue of the sky slowly changing color. Since the sunrise is in the background and the skyscrapers in the front, the sun act as big backlight for the city creating a captivating positive and negative space between high rises.

 

L&I: Class 01

First Class of Lighting & Interactivity, Tom asked us to do a simple interruptible fading light and I have got to confess that I am a bit rusty on my physical computing and took me a while to do what I was able to do last semester. I started off by looking at the Arduino example with blinking and fading light and combined these two together. One main thing that I made a mistake was that I used the digitalWrite() when I was supposed to use analogWrite() to get the fading effects.

CODE : 

// pwm fading led

int led = 9;
int brightness = 0;
int fadeAmount = 5;

void setup() {

  pinMode(led, OUTPUT);  
  
  // what's the difference if I change the OUTPUT to HIGH to LOW
  // resut is the same

}

void loop() {
  // set the brightness
  analogWrite(led, brightness);

  // change the brightness next time through loop
  brightness = brightness + fadeAmount;

  // reverse the direction of the fading at the ends of the fade
  if (brightness == 0 || brightness == 255) {
    fadeAmount = -fadeAmount;
  }

  // wait for 30 ms to see the effect
  delay(30);
}

Schematic :

Location: Urban Outfitters, NoHo, NYC

Time: 07.50 pm

Date: 27 Jan 2017

I was shopping with my friend and when I was about to pay and came across these lit candles decorated on the counter. The candle was lit in an amber glass jar that was place inside of another bigger jar, which I assume for both safety and decorations purposes.

The candle wax was already half way down the amber jar, which soften the direct hard light of the light source if it were brand new. The flames dance and flow as though they are hypnotizing me in a moment of warmth and comfort as I was waiting in line. I like how the candle was put inside of another bigger jar because at some point I can see when it the light hits the outer last layer the accumulated effects look like the flames were cut and moved slightly out of place but only for a moment.

 

Having come from Thailand where candle is deep-rooted in our daily lives, in particularly at temples and in many other celebrations. Candle lights reminds me of two main festivals in Thailand called "Loy Krathong" and "Yi Peng Lantern Festival". More information about the festival here and here. If you ever get a chance to travel to Thailand I really recommend you to go. They are really mesmorizing!

Source

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Yi Peng Lantern Festival

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A Short History of Color Theory by Rune Madsen

Rune states,

Artistic color theory, which is concerned with the visual effects of color combination in the fine arts, and scientific color theory, which describes the nature of color through increasingly complex but precise color models. 

His notes on the color system: additive and subtractive colors that are all around us, into the devices that we used daily inspired me to research more on the subject matter. As Rune said, I think that if I can distinguish and understand how they are implemented, I can later on adapt this knowledge into my projects. I can't wait to read the next chapter. I looked into the book, Theory of Color by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the illustrations diagrams are very helpful. I know that you have mentioned that this class will not focus on the projection mapping but as I have mentioned to you in the office hour that I am also take a class on Magic Windows with Rui and I think this class is perfect for me to experiment on that subject matter and Rune's chapter on color theory really keep me thinking!

 

Source: Color Theory