tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8043055877177911376.post388730022340802227..comments2023-04-05T07:06:58.293-07:00Comments on '20,000 Leagues Under The Table': 12/10/09 Update--Still almost finished.Sam Towlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15058747459962963791noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8043055877177911376.post-15758817154229877962009-12-14T10:37:58.878-08:002009-12-14T10:37:58.878-08:00Hi
PPS is a good company to know about, if you...Hi<br /><br />PPS is a good company to know about, if you're a designer of themed environments, which you are. Carl Hannigan is one of the main guys there, and although he's mainly a laser expert (one of the top laser guys in the industry), he and his fellows have developed a few charming lighting devises, the WaveLight being one of them. Here's his website:<br />http://www.ppsfx.com/<br /><br />I kinda wouldn't recommend buying a wavelight, only because they're real expensive. But if ya got lots of money, hey, why not! I have two of the wavelight, but only because i bought them as scrap from a metal recycling place, and they didn't know what they were. <br /><br />Maybe i think of it this way: there are home-made, private projects, and then there are corporate public projects. If i'm working on a project for some corporation...like diz or universal, i'll specify the wavelight. But if i'm doing some project at home, i'll probably cludge-together something cheaply. <br /><br />There are so many ways to create good water ripple. So many ways to modify projectors. My favorite (but kinda impractical) is the water ripple i saw decades ago in the smithsonian Natural History museum. They have a full-size model of a blue whale, mounted against a wall, kinda like this:<br />http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/NHM_blue_whale_model_22-2-2009.jpg&imgrefurl=http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/03/rorquals_part_i.php&usg=__edj8rlScDoGuJHNZvAQARY3qnQA=&h=217&w=310&sz=18&hl=en&start=2&sig2=GoOrMccSAkFtZ0m1U8VP6A&um=1&tbnid=Ceyynj6QyXxNnM:&tbnh=82&tbnw=117&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsmithsonian%2Bblue%2Bwhale%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1&ei=goMmS8qZH5umtgOO5bDgDg<br />And above it was a flat pan or tray, made of plexiglas, filled with water. A fan agitated the water, and a bright light above shot thru the rippling water, down onto the whale. It was beautiful and perfect water ripple. <br /><br />There are so many other ways to create water ripple. You have some very good ways in your display.<br /><br />Glad your opening went well!gerGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15071112956778032656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8043055877177911376.post-75327641865789701682009-12-12T00:29:45.053-08:002009-12-12T00:29:45.053-08:00I'll look into those wavelight projectors, the...I'll look into those wavelight projectors, they must be pretty good if Disney uses them!Sam Towlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15058747459962963791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8043055877177911376.post-87393469956173705922009-12-10T12:41:59.567-08:002009-12-10T12:41:59.567-08:00The aging on the books looks good...the screen cap...The aging on the books looks good...the screen captures are fine, and there's no problem with the color. They kinda look like they've been hand-tinted...like some old silent movie print. <br /><br />Sign's great! It looks really dynamic, and the bounce light behind it is cool. (in a dream world, with months more time, it would be great to have the bounce-light be water ripple) Laser cut? Where are you getting it laser cut, and what kind of material? Cool.<br /><br />Water ripple is so fun. You know about Carl Hannigan's (PPS...Precision Projection Systems) WaveLight projector? When i was at WDI, we used his projector for water ripple...and many other illusions. (OMG, they bought 300 of them for the 20k ride at TDS...but that's a whole other story...) When a friend worked on the twirling leaves for that series of entry doors for d'land pooh, he used the WaveLight, and replaced the ripple plastic disc with a laser-cut leaf pattern disc. It was fun to turn that ripple projector into other illusions. <br /><br />I bet the whole room looks great painted black. It's kinda freaky how different colors change our sense of size. I always love working on projects and perceiving how they seem large and small and large and small depending on the construction and the paint job...and then when an audience arrives!<br /><br />your work looks great.gerGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15071112956778032656noreply@blogger.com