[sudo-discuss] Light projection mapping progress - finally moving forward!

I got a lot of help from sudoroom members with the light projection mapping ideas. Also from Noisebridge! So far a lot of stuff online is people using really nice larger projectors, and there's a lot of great sophistication with mapping beforehand, especially in Blender, etc. But after chatting with folks, I'm taking the route first with small handheld laser projectors that hook up easily to smartphones and tablets or can take SD cards. The small projectors have been a good choice to get people excited. It's a lot more spontaneous. THere's just something about hooking up a laptop to a huge projector, being stuck at the back of room etc., but with the hand held projectors I can go anywhere and manipulate the images manually without having to make fancy graphics and videos - Marc discussed mounting the projectors onto bicycles - both projectors have mounts or have threaded quarter inch? inserts common to cameras, and I'm fairly confident I can put them on my goPro style mounts with some work. Aiming maybe for the next East Bay Bike Party which is March 11 (Friday night) - oh ya marc I still have your camera mount on wood for the stand will bring it back Sunday or Tuesday is that OK! - Carl G from SudoRoom has some projects he made for pixel art - we projected onto the movable walls in the sudoroom ballroom. Since it was so dark we were able to get a decent size (the walls) and there was a lot of energy and excitement! https://www.flickr.com/photos/miromi/51917779157/in/photostream/ Even nicer, I have been trying to get my regular cartoonist drawing group that meets wednesdays to get involved and even hang out at SudoRoom and omnicommons. They're just very clever and focus a lot on animation and cartoons! I finanlly got the projector working and was projecting Brian Kolm's crazy cat onto the wall, a bowl and on a spinning lazy susan. https://www.flickr.com/photos/miromi/51917436165/in/dateposted/ Even in he brightly lit movie theater (new parkway) the cartoonists got realy excited! https://www.flickr.com/photos/miromi/51917144029/in/photostream/ A lot of people are really into Hayao Miyazaki and theme park rides. I mean we aren't going to attempt this yet without asking, but what is the next step from immersive light projection rooms in the Omni Commons Ballroom? Imagine a guided ride in a wheeled cart right? wouldn't that be super fun? Hmmm!!!!! ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com