House of Cards Vid
2008-Jul-15 by Laughcalvin
Here is the video for Radiohead's "House of Cards" from their virtually free release In Rainbows. The technology used to make it is also virtually free. WARNING: If you were prone to seizures during strobe lit parties in small apartments in the eighties, this might not be for you! (via BoingBoing)
No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.


