Control Lightshow Over Dublin Sky From A Webpage 162
nev4 writes "Ireland is celebrating their EU presidency for 2004 with an interactive lightshow over Dublin. The project, Vectorial Elevation, allows people to control the 22 searchlights (154,000 watts, can be seen for a 15km radius) shining over Dublin by submitting a design on the project's website. The designs are queued and a new design is displayed every 14 seconds from dusk to dawn (GMT +1). You can see an aerial view of the city and the current design via live webcam or browse snapshots of previous designs. The tool for submitting deisgns also contains a 3D model of the city that you can pan around or "walk-through". Once you submit your design, you can opt to receive an e-mail when it is being displayed; when I submitted mine there was no one in the queue, so it was displayed immediately."
Add a bit more power... (Score:5, Funny)
ATTENTION: Parent is FUNNY, NOT OFFTOPIC !! (Score:1, Informative)
Let me explain for the clueless: The guy is saying that readers of slashdot, on seeing the story, will RTFA and then proceed to make their own lightshows. And being slashdotters, what kinds of lightshows will they create?
Ones saying
First Post!
... of course.
Dumb mods ...
Oops (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oops (Score:4, Funny)
I seriously doubt that they are going to see that. Because the sky is going to be slashdotted!!
Re:Oops (Score:4, Funny)
In other news.... (Score:3, Funny)
In other news... (Score:5, Informative)
This week's crossword puzzle prize is a brand new set of crayons.
Re:In other news... (Score:2, Interesting)
I'll be in Dublin tonight, so I can have a look.
Re:In other news.... (Score:1)
Astronomy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Astronomy (Score:1)
Re:Astronomy (Score:2, Informative)
There are astronomers working in Dublin (a small number of them anyhow), some of them with connections to Dublin University. However, as with all other cities elsewhere in the world, nobody (to my knowledge) does any observation work from Dublin or its environs any more. They used to, at Dunsink Observatory.
Re:Astronomy (Score:2)
Re:Astronomy (Score:1)
"Huh? Geez, I stayed asleep for an hour after class."
Re:Astronomy (Score:2, Interesting)
Yea, us amateurs really love it too... some discussion, and a picture from my back garden about 10 miles away at the Irish federation of astronomical societies forum http://www.irishastronomy.org/boards/viewtopi c.php?t=707 [irishastronomy.org]
And just when we were starting to make progress on light pollution... At least this is only going to be there for a couple of weeks.
Cheers,
~Al
Irish Light Pollution Awareness Campaign
www.irishastronomy.or [irishastronomy.org]
Message I submitted (Score:4, Funny)
"We are celebrating our EU presidency for 2004, and all we got is our web cam Slashdotted."
Poor fellows.Error in main posting? Not about EU presidency? (Score:3, Informative)
I'm sure our country isn't so egotistic to celebrate a usual (even if rare) event such as the EU presidency.
Could someone fix the posting?
Re:Error in main posting? Not about EU presidency? (Score:2, Informative)
I'm trying to SLEEEEEP!!! (Score:5, Funny)
An annoyed Dublin resident.
Re:I'm trying to SLEEEEEP!!! (Score:5, Funny)
1) In a pub
2) Busking outside Bewley's Oriental Tea Rooms
3) Trying to find a parking space around St. Stephens green
4) Stuck in road traffic somewhere along the banks of the Liffey
Sleeping - my ar*e
Re:I'm trying to SLEEEEEP!!! (Score:1)
Or bricking in the lights on your way to by heroin from a drug-dealing asylum seeker </Evening Herald>
;-)
You left one out. (Score:1)
5) Kicking the shit out of you for propogating stereo types. Kicking the shit out of you and all your descendents if you are Irish and wrote that.
Re:You left one out. (Score:2)
Sounds to me like the parent poster knows something about Dublin, so he either lives there or stayed there long enough to learn about its traffic patterns.
Also, I'd say hanging around in a pub/bar is average behavior for most guys around the world. Just because there's a huge Irish drinking stereotype doesn't mean that most peo
Re:You left one out. (Score:1)
Playing music, jugling, miming, singing, puppetry, performing, dancing, comedy, and just acting like a fool in front of many people with the hope of getting money is what busking's about.
I've never been to Dublin, or Ireland at all (though I am Irish-->American), but I have a hard time beleiving that an abnormally large number of Irish people do this for a living (judging by my family). But maybe I'd be wrong in that assumption.
Re:You left one out. (Score:1)
Tongue was firmly in cheek when writing my posting - lighten up.
Re:I'm trying to SLEEEEEP!!! (Score:1)
*ducks and runs for cover*
Woo! (Score:3, Funny)
Can I project my phone number so whole legions hot irish girls will call me, wanting hot passion?
Re:Woo! (Score:2, Insightful)
It is true that some Irish girls are totally hot. They are also very free-willed and strong headed, and are likely to tell someone such as yourself to get stuffed, only in more colourful language.
Have you thought this out? (Score:1, Insightful)
Your phone number in lights over a major city. Even if some hot irish girls try to call you they won't be able to get through with all the pervs and crazies tying up the line.
On a less public spirited note, please give it a try and post some of the calls you get on here for our amusement.
Re:Have you thought this out? (Score:2)
Re:Woo! (Score:3, Informative)
And that's my phone number.
Im in Dublin .. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Im in Dublin .. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Im in Dublin .. (Score:1)
Messages? (Score:2)
Campaign for Dark Skies (Score:4, Informative)
Once again the environment suffers to satisfy the vanity of politicians.
The night sky should be dark as this allows wildlife to not be disturbed, we save energy reducing CO2 emmissions and the next generation of kids might just get interested in astronomy and science in general.
http://www.dark-skies.org/
Aside from this - yes of course its pretty - but I'd like it to be limited up to 12 midnight, and only use sodium light which can be filtered out.
Clear dark and steady skies
Torcuill
www.aberdeenastro.btinternet.co.uk
Re:Campaign for Dark Skies (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Campaign for Dark Skies (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm from South Carolina, USA, and we get a fair share of sea turtles. They lay their eggs on the beach. Once those eggs hatch, the babies head for the sea using starlight. Unfortunately, they mistook some hotel's parking lot lights as stars and went the wrong way. Many were killed by being run over or just being too far from the ocean. A lot of volunteers spent
Re:Campaign for Dark Skies (Score:1)
Noshit you posted as AC.
Not sodium - mercury! (Score:2)
Not all sodium lighting is high-pressure. (Score:2)
If we look at some information on light pollution [prairieastronomyclub.org], we see that low-pressure sodium lighting (LPS) is actually preferred because it is easilly filtered out. (Not to mention, it's more energy efficient.)
It's a sign... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's a sign... (Score:1)
http://www.getreading.co.uk/story.asp?intid=931
lol
SPAM? (Score:5, Funny)
MAKE MONEY FAST!
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Buy \/IAGRA!
And the next spam message will not say any more "AS SEEN ON NATIONAL TV", but "AS SEEN ON NATIONAL SKY".
Mandatory Futurama quote (Score:2, Funny)
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams! Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games, on buses, and milk cartons, and t-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky. But not in dreams! No sirree.
Mandatory Futurama quote number 2... (Score:2)
My Message? (Score:4, Funny)
New Site (Score:3, Funny)
Re:New Site (Score:2)
my message (Score:3, Funny)
(up arrow) (up arrow) (down arrow) (down arrow) (left arrow) (right arrow) (left arrow) (right arrow) B A Start
fucking moderators (Score:1, Offtopic)
Then it got modded Offtopic?! It's completely Ontopic! You can submit a message/picture to be displayed by the lights during the show, and I posted what I wanted displayed. How in the fuck is that Offtopic? And how can a negatively modded post be Overrated?
Maybe it wasn't funny, but I shouldn't get punished for that. Hopefully those fucktard mods will get smacked down in metamoderation and their poin
Re:my message (Score:1)
Re:my message (Score:2)
I remember watching those 5 pixels clumped together and my brain automatically interpreting them as a human face.
Back then, you had 5 pixels for a face on a console, or 1 big square for an entire human if you were going to use a home computer.
On a related topic, if I could go back in time to stun myself, I think the one thing I'd really want to do is fire up a game of space quest 2 in a DOS Box, make it run full screen, and show my self from the past that screen... Ju
Re:my message (Score:2)
Re:my message (Score:1)
Doom on O'Connell Street!! (Score:2, Interesting)
Units ? (Score:5, Funny)
Could some sensitive clod convert these to American Units please ? What does 15km and 154000 watts mean in miles and libraries of congress ?
Re:Units ? (Score:4, Funny)
no thanks nessisary
Re:Units ? (Score:1, Informative)
15km = 9.3205679 miles
15km = (1 / 0.1072896) miles
$ units -v 154000watts 'libraries of congress'
Unknown unit 'libraries'
A watt is a unit of power, a typical lightbulb to light a room has 100W, a typical PC power supply has 250W. I don't know what strange units you use in US, so I can't convert... perhaps:
$ units -v 154000watts hp
154000watts = 206.5174 hp
154000watts = (1 / 0.004842207) hp
Re:Units ? (Score:1)
Re:Units ? (Score:2)
It means your car makes forty rods per hogshead.
Re:Units ? (Score:1)
Ummm. Wouldn't it be better at night? (Score:3, Informative)
Right now in Toronto (Eastern Daylight Savings Time) it is 11:30 AM and in Dublin it is 4:27:56 PM IST (Irish Standard Time?).
It might be a good idea to wait a few hours before submitting your project, designed to be intuitively obvious to any extraterrestrial beings that there is intelligent life on Earth...
myke
Re:Ummm. Wouldn't it be better at night? (Score:1)
Re:Ummm. Wouldn't it be better at night? (Score:3, Informative)
Currently, there is a 10 hour wait, and it's 5pm here. The lights won't start until sometime after 9 when it's dark enough to see the lights.
Incidently, you get emailed a link to a webpage so that you can see you design from 4 different cameras.
T.
Great Project (Score:4, Informative)
This guy does get up to some really interesting stuff.
Tell them what you think! (Score:3, Interesting)
Doom-blin (Score:1)
Screening for content? (Score:3, Interesting)
Is it just me, or does it seem like they are opening themselves up to trouble by not having some sort of screening program in place for the designs? How long before a giant, vector graphic representation of the goatse.cx guy is seen floating over Dublin?
Mechanik
Re:Screening for content? (Score:1)
Speer (Score:4, Informative)
What better way (Score:3, Flamebait)
Rich
I'd rather be looking out for Comet Bradfield (Score:4, Interesting)
http://www.darksky.org/ [darksky.org]
http://spaceweather.com/ [spaceweather.com]
Please, can someone... (Score:1, Flamebait)
Re:Please, can someone... (Score:2)
Re:Please, can someone... (Score:2)
BlinkenLights (Score:4, Interesting)
What a terrible waste! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What a terrible waste! (Score:1)
I take it you have never been to Vegas.
It looks really cool! (Score:1)
Impressive (Score:4, Interesting)
Many are getting all the spotlights to shine on one narrow band of "The Spire" [irish-architecture.com]. It then shines like a lighthouse right into the apartment.
Expect some good viewing tonight as cloud cover is 100%.
Impression (Score:2, Interesting)
Next step would be to take some consecutive slots and make some kind of movie.
Have fun
The lights don't aim well.... (Score:1)
but then again, it's a government job, right?
Re:My message in the sky would be: (Score:1, Offtopic)
Let me guess - you're British!
Personally I think the rest of Europe should have a vote to chuck Britain out of the EU. Britain just holds the rest of the EU back.
Re:My message in the sky would be: (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm Irish actually.
If you're going to chuck a country out of the EU for blocking European 'progress', then where will it end? I wouldn't be surprised if Britain isn't the only big country to say 'No'. The French only voted 50.5 to 49.5 for the Euro currency.
The EU is incredibly currupt, financially and morally. They should get their house in order, and prove they deserve our respect before making the EU anything other than a trade bloc.
Europeans everywhere - read the s
Re:My message in the sky would be: (Score:2)
From the Republic of Ireland? If so then you should know better. You have a great economy at the moment. A lot of that is due to your membership of the European Union. You have hugely successful companies like Ryanair which only exist because of the opening up of the European market and relaxation of rules.
Look how membership of the EU has helped your country over the past decade, compared to how the relationship you had with Britain has helped you.
Europeans everywhere - read the sma
Re:My message in the sky would be: (Score:2)
Not true in this case.
It is important for everyone to realise that this is nothing to do with economics
Again, not true. It has everything to do with economics. The point of the consistution is to simplify and bring together many currently existing rules. The change from rotating presidency to fixed-term presidency, for instance, will be great for the economy of Europe, because it we won't have a president with two jobs any more. Do you think i
Re:My message in the sky would be: (Score:1)
No it isn't. Lots of organisations have constitutions. A constitution is just a formal document specifying the rules and principles on which the organisation is based.
This includes throwing out many of the rights and freedoms of a 'freeborn Englishman' (which the Irish inherited) built up since Magna Carta.
The Irish didn't 'inherit' anything of the sort. Irish subjects of the Queen under the Union had considerably less rights and freedoms th
Re:My message in the sky would be: (Score:2)
Re:My message in the sky would be: (Score:4, Insightful)
Personally I think the UK's relationship with the USA is at the heart of the UK's actions in the EU.
Some in the administration of the USA have said quite clearly that their policy towards the EU is one of divide and rule. We have seen this working quite clearly recently, when Blair put a lot of effort into developing a relationship with Spain and used that to divide Europe about the Iraq war.
The USA does not want a strong, united Europe. They like the fact that the UK is always half-in, half-out, because it means that Europe is less united an weaker. Quite what the UK gets out of it I don't know, but the relationship between the UK and USA has always been somewhat murkey, even to us Brits.
Re:My message in the sky would be: (Score:2)
At the moment, is it illegal to sell products with both SI and imperial units?
I know that I got a shock a couple of weeks ago, my housemate asked me how many pounds there were in a kilogram. I was in the kitchen, so the first thing I did was, from previous experience, open up my c
Re:My message in the sky would be: (Score:1, Insightful)
And founded a bit earlier, say, 1939-42 ish
Re:My message in the sky would be: (Score:1)
Er, no. Britain wasn't even a member until 1973, fifteen years after it was founded.
Re:My message in the sky would be: (Score:5, Insightful)
I expect because he is a Brit.
You wouldn't believe how biased the press in the UK is with regards to anything European. It really is sad. Most of the British do not have access to impartial information about Europe. And it's not just the "red-top" newspapers, it's so called "quality" papers such as The Times and The Telegraph. They only ever print negative stories about anything European, and some things are so distorted that they amount to lies and propoganda.
I find it a real shame because I genuinely used to believe that Britain jouralists had a strong sense of integrity and impartiality. Not any more.
(I'm British too but I travel a lot in Europe and my business involves trade between different EU countries.)
Re:My message in the sky would be: (Score:1)
> to believe that Britain jouralists had a strong
> sense of integrity and impartiality. Not any more.
You must be a "Sun" reader.
Re:My message in the sky would be: (Score:2)
No. My upbringing was one of "aspiring middle-class", so I used to believe that being an Englishman meant being honest and having integrity. A working-class Sun reader probably won't be so naieve.
Re:Obvious fake (Score:1, Funny)
Re:lights (Score:1)
Re:Red, White and Blue (Score:2)