{"id":11167,"date":"2006-07-27T13:10:46","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T13:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/07\/big-pixels-l-xl-and-xxl.html"},"modified":"2006-07-27T13:10:46","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T13:10:46","slug":"big_pixels_l_xl_and_xxl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/27\/big_pixels_l_xl_and_xxl\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Pixels: L, XL, and XXL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computer displays are growing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinquirer.net\/default.aspx?article=8578\">ever higher-resolution<\/a>, with ever-tinier pixels.  So how about going in the opposite direction&#8211;representing data in ever-larger chunks?  Three takes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tupajumi.com\/pingpongpixel\/\" \/>PingPongPixel<\/a> project digitizes images, then re-creates them on a 64 sq. ft. surface using 2700 shaded ping pong balls (each a 38mm pixel).  Each rendering takes roughly two and a half hours to form.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.we-make-money-not-art.com\/archives\/008797.php\">Via<\/a>]\n<li>Going a step larger, check out the video for Faithless&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=3269861733886252936\">I Want More<\/a>.  Well-disciplined schoolkids create huge portraits by flipping the pages of large books.  The footage of this massive choreography apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/shows\/northkorea\/index.html\">comes from a documentary<\/a> about North Korea.\n<li>And for some <i>really<\/i> enormous pixels (of a sort), how about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kyzStoxnTKs\">human-sized Space Invaders<\/a>?  Give it up for a squad of French kids schlepping around an auditorium all day to create this simulation.\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nMaybe the next step is to go from a particle to a wave: a team at Akishima Laboratories has found a way <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinktentacle.com\/2006\/07\/device-uses-waves-to-print-on-water-surface\/\" \/>to print on waves<\/a>, forming any English letter, if only for a moment.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/technology\/printing_on_water_using_waves_4132.asp\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer displays are growing ever higher-resolution, with ever-tinier pixels. So how about going in the opposite direction&#8211;representing data in ever-larger chunks? Three takes: The PingPongPixel project digitizes images, then re-creates them on a 64 sq. ft. surface using 2700 shaded ping pong balls (each a 38mm pixel). Each rendering takes roughly two and a half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}