Go for gold Kathy!

Since I'm a big fan of alpine skiing i watched the ladies giant slalom competition yesterday. Well the weather was bad, and the start position of the german team was not the best. And the Austrian ski team rocked the challenge. So what can i do to support the German Ski team, especially Kathrin Hölzel the World Champion of Giant Slalom. I really keep my fingers crossed for them and wish them all the best for the things to come in the second run today. Which was rescheduled due to bad weather. Lindsey Vonn was injured by a accident in the first run, so i wish her all the best and get well soon. But how can i sent the team a message? Well i guess i found a solution.

On the Webpage Vectorial Elavation you can design the sky over Vancouver. A grid of sky beamers makes this possible. You can design 20 Syncrolite SX10K, a new generation 10kW xenon robotic fixtures that produce a very collimated light beam showing your design for almost 12 seconds. The Webpage is done by bunch of JavaScript's and a implementation of Google’s Maps and Google World. So the designing process is very easy. Even if not any design you can imagine is possible. But with enough time, you can draw very cool pictures in the nightlight of Vancouver. So start the Design:

After you finished the design, you can leave a Message and your contact information, so the system can inform you about you’re design.

The Laser Show in Vancouver is cool. The best thing is the feed where you get information about the Skyimages and the Message to each image. The Application coordinates some webcams which takes picture of it, and render them to a site you can reach via a feed or directly via a url. Go for Gold Kathy! The question remaining is how the searchlights are coordinated. A 3D DMX application brings the 20 sky beamers in the position you want. Here is a full picture of the architecture.

You can find more information about the PHP Website the 3D DMX application and the Webcams here.

Here is the result of my Design!

So i designed the sky over Vancouver on 25th of February 2010 at 4:55.