Awesome Light Show

[deane]

This video has to be seen to be believed. It's a light show celebrating the 600 year anniversary of the astrological clock tower in Prague. The term "light show" doesn't do it justice, though. It's projected onto the front of the tower and uses computerized surface mapping to incorporate the tower's real features into the show. For example, when they project the image of rain running down the front of the tower, the droplets curl around the raised bezels surrounding the clock faces, just as they would in real life.

My favourite parts are when the tower walls retract to show the inner workings of the clock and when the tower sways back and forth after being hit by a cannonball.

Comments

[outlier_lynn]

That is a cool video. I don't know enough Polish/European history to follow everything. I think I caught up at WWI. Nonetheless, That was a wonderful bit of animation projected onto a less than smooth surface. The crowd seemed to like it, too. :)