Hi Harry, Patrick,
This may be just a digression.
To complement the fine and saturated power of lighting instruments ...
if I buy iPADs for to play with in the lab for Michael,Tim and JS, I would like to invite us 3 to think orthogonally to the usual pathology of screen-based play.
What if we (when we get the budget) get many iPADs and find a way to suspend them in space? What if we think of them as
(1) addressable light panels -- expensive light bulbs -- FORGET IMAGE !
(2) windows into other parts of the same room (so we need to get a lot of inexpensive cameras and a video-mixer)
What if we
(A) Float them on aircraft cable from the grid at different heights in the air. Let's figure out what heights and densities have what effects
Finally we can try to something I've always wanted to play with more.
(B) Introduce rhythms into them by sequencing
(C) Introduce responsive behavior. a brute force but perhaps effective sketch method: map Jitter into large video matrix, then beam submatrices to iPADs?
Xin Wei