The temperature of spherical leds: When technology is no longer a cold machine

The light of a sphere can tell a story

I’m not the kind of person who will be impressed by technology at first sight. Большой экран, гоночный глаз 3d, легкая матрица… Если ты видишь слишком много, В своем сердце может даже развиться немного эстетической усталости. Но в ту ночь, Я помню это слишком ясно: В атриуме на первом этаже выставочного зала, Вся стена была темной, только с излучающей сферой мягким светом, тихо подвешен в середине воздуха, как луна, или как какое -то устройство, которое не принадлежало земле.

Это сферический светодиодный дисплей.

Я стоял там и смотрел почти двадцать минут. Нет объяснения, Нет слов, only flowing images slowly spreading on the spherical surface. The clouds are surging, the mountains are deforming, and the light seems to be shining out from within – do you know that feeling? Just suddenly there was a “click” sound in my mind, as if some switch had been turned on.

I’m not here to see the equipment. I’m here to see the inspiration. But what it told me was that the two could actually be the same thing.

Why is a spherical shape more touching than a square one?

Позже, Я начал всерьез изучать светодиод сфере, а также участвовал в некоторых проектах. Я постепенно обнаружил, что сама сферическая структура имеет силу, которая приближает людей ближе. Без острых краев и без различия между верхним и нижним, Вы никогда не найдете “только фронт”. Это делает его естественным образом подходящим для “наблюдая” а также за то, чтобы быть визуальным ядром в пространстве.

В недавно построенной городской библиотеке, Мы используем его, чтобы сыграть 24 Солнечные термины. Каждый 15 дни, Его содержание меняется с сезонами: white dots fall during Minor Snow and drizzle flows during the Qingming Festival. Every day on their way to school, children pass by here, take a look, say, “It’s the coldest day of the year today,” and then run away with their schoolbags on their backs.

I think, isn’t this the best form of technology? Not high-profile, not noisy, but memorable.

Is technology very expensive? Expensive, but not blindly

It would be false if you said it was cheap. A stably operating sphere LED display involves not just a “экран”, but an entire system: От конструкции модуля структуры сферы до более поздней производства контента и соединения с системой управления, Каждый шаг не случайный.

Но есть ли это “стоит цена” Зависит от того, как вы его используете.

Если вы хотите запомнить пространство, Чтобы люди готовы сфотографироваться, поделиться и остаться, тогда его ценность не просто “Сияющий мяч”, но “контейнер с памяти”.

В торговом центре, Мы установили сферу с диаметром 2 метры и повесил его прямо под двором атриума. В 7 пл. каждую ночь, it plays the star map and automatically changes the rhythm in accordance with the ambient music. No one was forced to gather around, but you would find that the restaurants on that floor were quietly doing much better business.

Some things don’t need to be shouted at.

What’s truly difficult is never the equipment but the content

Если быть честным, the most headache-inducing part is actually the content.

You have to relearn “telling stories on spheres”. The original storyboard and composition logic all have to be changed. Where is the front? From which perspective do the audience view it? How does the visual center of gravity shift? You can no longer expect a landscape video to be directly pasted.

Оказавшись в музее науки и техники, we spent two months creating an immersive set of interstellar content. You stand directly beneath the sphere, and the entire Milky Way rotates slowly above your head, as if in a space capsule. This kind of experience cannot be achieved with an ordinary screen.

If you only show the LOGO, then don’t put it on the ball screen. That would be a waste.

Иногда, should a sphere do nothing

I have been looking at minimalist space design recently. You will find that some sphere LED displays do not require complex content at all. A breathing effect of a single color and a static material texture are already sufficient.

It is like a moon that exists there and doesn’t disturb anyone.

I think that’s another kind of wisdom – not winning by volume, but by leaving blank space for people to imagine.

A small piece of advice if you are still hesitating

Don’t be moved by the appearance too quickly, nor be deterred by the price too quickly. Ask yourself a few questions:

Do you want people to “see” it or “помнить” это?

Do you need it to be the focus or the atmosphere?

Do you have any content, not videos, но “something you want people to feel”?

These questions should determine whether you choose the sphere LED display or not.

By the way, I have seen many project teams start anxiously looking for content production at the very end, by which time it is too late. The best-case scenario is to have the space designer, content creator and equipment provider sit down and chat together from the very beginning.

Just like the last time I chatted with a space design team in Shanghai, we used visualpower’s solution as the carrier, designed projection interaction on the ground, and did dynamic light breathing on the sphere, integrating so seamlessly that the boundaries were almost indistinct.

That time, I finally believed that light has warmth.