Starry Fields

Luftwerk

Permanent Outdoor Installation

Concept:

This installation is attached to a trellis on the side of a parking garage facing an area with high foot traffic. It uses a painting by Mark Turbyfill, an artist local to the area, as a source for its color pallettes

My Role

I wrote the software that drives this installation and selected the equipment to run it, as well as drafting the wiring layout

Technical Design

This project runs on a Pharos Lighting Playback controller. Each LED bar has an architectural 16-bit DMX LED driver attached to it. Both the drivers and the LED products were selected for the quality of color rendering and smoothness of color fades.

The code for color sampling is written in LUA, and encapsulated by the controller's own environment which handles timing and DMX output.

Credits

Visual Design: Luftwerk
Technical Design: Andy Kauff
Installation: Neal Javenkoski
Commissioned by: The City of Chicago