Video: The world of lights. Oakland Bay Bridge - The World's Largest Light Installation
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The most famous and most visited bridge in San Francisco has always been and will be the Golden Gate. However, these days, another bridge can be compared in popularity with them - Oakland Bay Bridge, which became the largest in the world light installation.
Light installations are becoming an increasingly common form of contemporary art. There are even individual companies and creative teams exclusively engaged in the creation of such works, for example, the Spanish art group Luzinterruptus.
In San Francisco, the most ambitious light installation in the world appeared, stretching from one coast of the bay to the other, and located on the Oakland Bay Bridge.
Designed by artist Leo Villareal, this huge, impressive work commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Oakland Bay Bridge. In total, to create this lighting installation, it was necessary to install more than 25 thousand LEDs, connect them to a computer and create a special program to control them.
This computer program will change the lighting of the bridge by controlling the brightness of the diodes. At the same time, it contains such an algorithm for creating active combinations that none of them will be repeated, at least for two years.
Thanks to the use of energy-saving LEDs, one night of operation of this lighting system for the Oakland Bay Bridge will cost only $ 15, and two years - 11 thousand. This relatively small amount of money comes from the national program to promote green technologies. And the huge luminous bridge is an excellent advertisement for modern LEDs.
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