Burning Man 2018: RadiaLumia, by FoldHaus Collective (drone edit)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2018
- I am one of the leads of a group we call "FoldHaus Collective" which creates large-scale kinetic origami-based works of art for Burning Man and beyond. We're all volunteers, and with many of the us being professional product designers, engineers, or software developers, the works are very heavily "engineered."
Our last work, Shrumen Lumen, is a grouping of large, moving origami mushrooms, which is currently on display at the Smithsonian Renwick gallery in DC. (www.bloomberg.com/news/featur...)
This piece, RadiaLumia, is inspired by a tiny protozoa called a "Radiolaria." Tip to tip it's nearly as tall as a 5-story building, almost every part (including the aluminum extrusions that form the structure) is custom-made, and there are 42 individual computer units that control each "node" as well as the custom servo and lead screw mechanism that opens and closes each shell. It runs off of nearly 22,000 watts of power, and because of it's size, we had never assembled it until we got to the desert!
You're watching the very first assembly of it in this video!
A few process images are on my instagram account: / jesse_silver
It is ENORMOUSLY complicated to build and pay for things like this, so a huge thanks to every single person who helped build it, whether you soldered 10 wires or did the CAD model for the whole thing. An equally huge thanks to every person and organization who donated to this project through kickstarter, a private donation, the Burning Man art grant, or through showings of our previous work.
Video by Matthew Niederhauser
Music by Marc Kinchen
www.foldhaus.com
Copyright 2018, "FoldHaus, LLC" - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
best piece of art out there , tripped on it awhile :)
Hahah, thanks and glad you thoroughly enjoyed it 😁
We loved it! Thank you so much!
This is incredible. My I wish I could have seen it in person! 🧡
Sick!
Unreal. So good. 🙌
Very nice
I loved looking directly down one of the spikes from a distance, it made you feel a weird vertigo feeling with a perfectly balanced view of it all. Where is it now??
Yeah, I loved that it had a lot of points of view you could enjoy it from! It's in two shipping containers on treasure island off of San Francisco. We're still looking for a 4+ month showing we can do somewhere. Unfortunately it's very time consuming and labor intensive to set up so it's only right for certain types of events. But it'll make it out again sometime!
So rad! There are some photos of this on my site.
Oh cool! Thanks for photographing it!
Beautiful, congrats to the team!
How did you power it for 7 days?
Thanks! We rented a 60kw diesel generator that it ran from. Solar would have been great, but would have required an enormous panel and (considering most power draw is at night), a crazy-expensive battery array. Power went through 3 50-amp 240v cables that we trenched and then ran up the central steel tube, emerging in the core of the sphere where all of the 70v and 12v power supplies were.
Wow that's mind blowing
Thx! Lots of custom work in that.
did you guys predict the c*vid????? that looks like the bug's photo!
Right?! Lol.... it's actually inspired by a tiny protozoa called a radiolaria which already looks a bit like covid. Looks like nature repeats its patterns sometimes ;)
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