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Installation view of Patterned by Nature, a
transparent sculptural display at Raleigh’s North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
This artwork, a collaboration between Plebian Design, Hypersonic Engineering and Design, Patten Studio and Sosolimited, celebrates our abstraction of nature’s infinite complexity into patterns through the scientific process—and through our perceptions. It brings to light the similarity of patterns in our universe, across all scales of space and time.
This sculptural ribbon—10 feet wide and 90 feet in length, and made of 3,600 tiles of LCD glass—winds through the five-story atrium of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. It runs on roughly 75 watts (less power than a laptop computer). Animations are created by independently varying the transparency of each piece of glass.
This sculptural ribbon—10 feet wide and 90 feet in length, and made of 3,600 tiles of LCD glass—winds through the five-story atrium of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. It runs on roughly 75 watts (less power than a laptop computer). Animations are created by independently varying the transparency of each piece of glass.
I love a project like this because it proves that you don’t need a million pixels or 3-D glasses to create a piece of screen-work that’s immersive, emotional and organic. In fact, there are moments when the effect feels as “natural” as being in an atrium with real birds. I think it’s a great solution that weaves together a unique technology, a dynamic consideration of the physical space and slick software development into a final design that transcends all the individual parts and becomes “real.”
Patterned by Nature from Sosolimited on Vimeo.
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This video shows Patterned by Nature in action.
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Patterned by Nature, installation view
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Patterned by Nature, installation detail
