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ian

wow… goes to show true 3d is only around the corner…

June 14, 2008 @ 4:20 am

Virtual Magician

this is so cool!
wondering how strong the projector was.

June 14, 2008 @ 6:17 am

Steve Elbows

Mmmm me likes :)

June 14, 2008 @ 6:49 am

Lee

Has anybody successfully run Cowboy Bitmap on an iMac with an english keyboard as opposed to a laptop with a french keyboard? If so, how did you get the movies to display?

June 14, 2008 @ 7:41 am

Kat Black

Holy crap, that’s stunning. So much cool visual stuff going on in France.

June 15, 2008 @ 6:49 pm

Danger

the best :)

June 16, 2008 @ 1:35 am

zacislost

Just tried it myself lee, wouldn’t work :(

Would love to see this program fixed for us english keyboard users and covered in CDM..
/nudge

June 16, 2008 @ 1:39 am

vnl

just tried cowboy and it is really painful on US keyboard….

June 16, 2008 @ 10:03 am

Jordan Hochenbaum

thats super-nice!

June 16, 2008 @ 5:14 pm

Danger

can anyone explay how this made ? how many projectors…where they are etc. etc..

June 17, 2008 @ 1:41 am

Franz / EXYZT

Hi,
i’ve quickly set up an English U.S keyboard version of CowboyBitmap.
If anyone is kind enough to test it …. Same place.
As for the projectors, only 1 was used, driven by a custom Quartz Composer app. Lighting is DMXed via MaxMsp. All the show is midi-controlled by the musician.

June 17, 2008 @ 7:56 am

Danger

cool :)
i got some idea for making one instalation with that king of “screen” (semi transparent) material.
Where can i found that kind of material ?

PS: my keyboard is PT_pt (Portugal) i will test CowboyBitmap and then i say something…

June 17, 2008 @ 9:35 am

Danger

Franz i have tested FR and US version they seen to work ok :) for PT keyboard is a little confuse hehehe
Is’t possible to make some XML or TXT file for configuration ?

June 17, 2008 @ 12:32 pm

massta

Franz,
Where is the projector mounted (distance, height, so forth)? I’m assuming it is somehow skewed otherwise no light would enter the middle of the scaffolding. Thanks and awesome work!

June 17, 2008 @ 2:41 pm

gbsr

wah. so simple, yet so elegant.
on a sidenote, it kind of reminds me of the mapping projects by ds:
http://www.digital-slaves.com/Mapping.php

June 17, 2008 @ 5:35 pm

Drew Blood

Time for an update?

June 18, 2008 @ 12:01 am

v--v--v--v

couldnt this have been achieved without mapping, just setting your projector up perfectly aligned with the square, and just programming visuals to work within the enviroment?

im not saying this is bad, its amazing, but on a level of different ways of getting it done

June 18, 2008 @ 12:08 am

Cj

Ok….if you watch some of the other clips on youtube etc of etienne de crecy you can see the projector at Front of house .
The section in the middle with the dj is not being projected onto using a mask layer in a media server of some type.

From what i can see this is all down to the content looking like it’s 3-d,the camera shots from the side have no projection so i guess it’s a projector or a few from the front.

amazing stuff all the same.
C

June 18, 2008 @ 12:15 pm

ed

It’s one projector. I saw him live last year and a friend of mine had a chat with with the tech guys. If i recall correctly, it’s a 20000lumen projector and the sofware automaps the squares to fit the structure, with masking of the centre cube where etienne is placed. From there its all image trickery to make it look 3d…

April 28, 2009 @ 9:50 am

joachim

can anyone explaine me where i could download this cowboy bitmap software can’t seem to find a copy and their site seems to be off for the moment

June 2, 2009 @ 6:59 am

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