On: The surreal art of ‘unnatural lighting’

[xwdv]

You know what would really blow me away? If someone came up with a way to convert a 3D polygon mesh into a drone's flight path so that it could render any sort of 3D object into a scene with timelapse lighting. Light rendering.

[zvr → xwdv]

Intel has a solution where you provide the 3D models (static or animated) and they automatically generate flight paths for dozens/ hundreds of drones, each acting as pixel/voxel. Of course with collision avoidance between them.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/technology-innovatio...

[stavros → xwdv]

I wrote a small script to do that with 2D SVGs, there's nothing difficult about doing it in 3D.

[xwdv → stavros]

But did you make the drone fly the path?

[stavros → xwdv]

Yes.

[xwdv → stavros]

Why not make a post and harvest some karma? Would love to see the pics.

[stavros → xwdv]

Unfortunately they didn't turn out very good and I didn't try again (maybe I should). Here's a build log from the first attempt (click "build log"):

https://www.makerfol.io/project/m8xrLUp-light-painting-with-...

I subsequently made a harness for the Mavic air too, that's the one the script was written for.