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Shadow mural
Elusive artwork that can only be seen at sunset | |
While staring listlessly at my bedroom wall once, I noticed quite a striking effect. It normally looks like a plain, white painted wall (which it is), but as the sun went down, for a few minutes it was shining directly along the surface of the wall. The angle of the light caused every tiny dip or bump
in the wall to cast a shadow, so every previously undetectable feature became highly visible. It was also quite a fetching fiery red colour, but I digress...
My proposal is to use this effect to make a mural which is only visible at sunset. At most times of day, the wall would look like a perfectly ordinary wall. But it is covered with tiles which have had a picture printed on them with tiny dots of enamel. As the sun goes down, for a few minutes every evening the dots are thrown into sharp relief and the picture becomes visible.
Shadow Parks
http://www.halfbake...idea/Shadow_20Parks
related idea by [lostdog] [krelnik, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Short name, e.g., Bob's Coffee
Destination URL.
E.g., http://www.coffee.com/
Description (displayed with the short name and URL.)
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I read about a bas relief of a similar nature, done on the outside of a building in Europe. See my annotation near the bottom of "Shadow Parks." |
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This is indeed a cool idea. I did read
about a slightly similar concept in
wired/or tv. A video camera was hooked
up a computer and output to a
"monitor" made up of blocks of wood
that would rotate, thus changing, the
depth, color (something, I forgot). It got
the values from the RGB pixel values.
Very freaking cool. |
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Someone did run around my little city
just the other day and drew outlines
around the shadows of objects in the
street. Perhaps this was you... |
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