14. July 2008

I’m not a big fan of Radiohead,

But, this video just rocks!  Unfortunately, I can’t embed it into my website because YouTube/Radiohead doesn’t allow it with this video.  You can find the video here.  http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/

Correction:  Here’s the video!

I like the song.  It’s rather haunting and very poetic.  But I’m really fascinated by how they made it:  using short and long range lasers.  No other form of light or traditional video cameras were used!  A computer reads in the data from the lasers (in this case, distance data) and translates it into a 3D form:  aka data visualization.  What’s even cooler,  Google and Radiohead have a basic application that lets you play with the 3D visualization while the song is playing!  http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/viewer.html I really recommend it to everyone (well, those who have high speed internet)!!