LED sculptor Christopher Shardt has created a 26 14-foot butterfly-shaped sculpture of Mariposa, which is fitted with a 3With 90,000 LEDs that can be programmed according to the display pattern, the entire giant butterfly is powered by nine Raspberry Pi-based controllers.
How does it work?
Mariposa is for this year"Burning Man"The built, installed 15 feet above the ground, has a swinging bench underneath that revelers can lie on and watch it fly in place. The swing of the bench drives the hinges of the butterfly's wings, making the visitor a part of the artwork.
The butterfly's body is made of aluminum tubes, and the LED light strips span the wing frames, like the warp threads on a loom. Speakers disguised as giant flower pots dot the bottom of the installation, **classic and classic pop**. 3.90,000 LEDs make up a single screen that displays images arranged according to each song**. LED Lab is an iPad app that allows you to animate LEDs with any image or file, and it controls the entire installation, while the Raspberry Pis in Mariposa performs the lighting choreography according to the app's requirements.
Burning Man
Christopher has been participating in Burning Man since 1998, and he has been making large-scale LED art installations for Burning Man since 2015. His most famous work is from 2018"paraluna", which is a 28-foot-tall disc suspended by a boom lift, moves up and down over the audience's heads while displaying an LED pattern choreographed according to the classical**. Paraluna This is another creation controlled by a Raspberry Pi, in the form of a dome that you can lie in ** light show. But Mariposa is the largest and most complex work ever made by Christopher's team.
Construction Process ** Diary
These ** clearly show how the LED strip light sticks out from the butterfly-shaped aluminum tube fan shape. In ** below, you can see the electronics that control the light show hidden in the wings of Mariposa.
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