Created by the Waterloo Regional Operations Centre in Cambridge, Ontario, Solar Collector is a unique new public art sculpture that uses solar energy to create beautiful interactive artwork. With 12 shafts gathering human expression and solar energy during the day, the artwork brings all of it together in a stunning performance of flowing light each night.
Each shaft in the sculpture is programmed to reflect the angles of the sun throughout the year and artists can even interact with the Solar Collector from their homes via internet and using simple web-based controls, can even compose wave-based patterns along the shafts with pulsating lights.
Designed by Gorbet Design, Inc, the software allows people to play with simple sliders, create patterns and submit them to be a part of the next performance. At the end of the day’s displays, a series of global patterns are composed from all the patterns ever created ending the performance as the shafts slowly use up all their energy and fade out one by one!
Source: Green Fab
