There are a ton of things you can do with your handy Raspberry Pi computer. Students from the University of Applied Science St. Pölten in Austria, in conjunction with time-lapse and film production company, FilmSpektakel, decided to create three-dimensional light paintings with their Raspberry Pi.
The project was parts of a graduation assignment for the university, but resulted ion some spectacular imagery.
Holopainting is a combination of the light painting, stop motion and hyperlapse technology. The students built a giant 3D scanner comprised of 24 Raspberry Pi computers and their webcams. The cameras took photos from 24 different angles of a person standing in the middle of a circle, with a delay of 83 milliseconds — so the movement of the person also was recorded.
Next, they spent a exorbitant amount of time cutting out each photo, so that they could place the person on a black solid background. They created a hyperlapse around a light painting artist who painted each of the photos they took, according to the current position of the camera.
What they ended up with was a hyperlapse that circulates around a three dimensional light painting, sort of like painting a hologram — or what they call holopainting.
Some of the equipment used in the project included:
– 24 Raspberry Pis
– 24 Raspberry Pi webcams
– 1 48-Port-Switch
– 375 meters of LAN cable
– Canon 6D
– Sachtler Ace M
– Pixelstick
Here’s the video so you can see how it’s done for yourself.
Story via Raspberry Pi.
