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An installation at The Silverbeach Carousel by Chip Reay and Phillip Reay
Shaped much like a classical kiosk, such as the Washington Monument, but elevated at each corner on four columns. Viewers can walk beneath the device and gaze up into the forty foot tall mirrored interior, reflecting the top screen into a vast sphere. Showing an endless mix of video dynamically cutting between live on-site cameras - kaleidoscope faces, the Carousel, and the Compass Fountain, mixing with edited video from locations near and far - Lake Michigan waves and beaches, the lighthouse, sailboats, flowers, the earth, sun, galaxies.
Chip Reay - Concept, Design, Photography
Phillip Reay - Concept, Design, Hardware, Programming, Animation, Video
Bill Langbehn - Videographer - Beaches, waves, fountain
Jeff Beam - Programming, Hardware Installation
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The live cameras and DVD video connect to the heart of the system, an Edirol V8 Video Mixer. An AMX automation system running a custom program controls the V8 mixer using MIDI. The AMX also provides a web-based control panel to control cameras manually, and manage behavioral settings for The Very Large Digital Kaleidoscope video mix.
Video comes from a a variety of sources: local Michigan videographers, NASA, and our own photos and video. Additional custom effects were made using onadime to add rotational, scaling and reflection effects.
This was to visualize the best working angles for the view inside the kaleidoscope. Dragging the frame controller over the middle section of the movie lets you see how various angles reflect.