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Holographic Fog Cube

Creation Matrix: A Cube Filled With Projected Space

Creation Matrix

At night, a glass cube glows with orange and blue holographic clouds while a woman inside holds a lit hoop above her head.
Holographic clouds fill the cube at night

An 8-foot cube filled with projected space. Two opposing projections enter a controlled fog matrix, building layers of floating imagery that can be watched from outside or entered and stood inside.

Challenge

Put the image inside the volume instead of on its surface. The illusion only holds if fog density, projection angles and content all cooperate, and it has to keep holding while people walk through the middle of it.

Solution

Two opposing projectors send imagery into a controlled fog matrix inside an 8-foot structure, layering light through the volume rather than onto a wall. Playback, fog and structure are tuned as one system, so the forms read in the air from outside and surround you from within.

Outcome

Audiences watch the forms shift from outside, then step through the wall of light and stand inside the image. Shown at festivals and art events across North America.

Gallery

  • Rainbow-colored light rays radiate through thick fog as three silhouetted people walk past, with the glowing cube visible in the distance.
  • A swirling blue and purple spiral hologram fills one panel of the cube at night, with a person in striped leggings standing inside amid thick fog.
  • Magenta and purple light rays burst across the cube's panels at night, silhouetting a single person standing inside.
  • Pink fog glows inside the cube as a person films on their phone, while a small group of onlookers watches from just outside.
  • Pink and purple light beams radiate outward around a silhouetted figure with tiny lights woven into their hair.
  • Deep red and magenta fog engulfs the cube as several people in patterned costumes gather inside, with glowing ring props and a crowd nearby.
  • Deep blue light rays radiate from a bright central point through thick fog.
  • A person in a cap stands silhouetted inside the cube, backlit by radiating pink light and fog, with a truck and tent visible behind them.
  • Blue and purple cloud-like holograms fill the cube at night while a person inside raises a glowing hoop overhead.
  • A silhouetted figure spreads their arms wide inside the cube, backlit by a bright pink light against orange and purple projected clouds.
  • A crowd gathers on a street at dusk as intense blue laser beams shoot from the distant cube installation past houses and power lines.
  • The cube glows teal and blue like a fog-filled tank in a grassy field, as costumed onlookers watch from a distance.
  • A dense crowd stands bathed in blue light as the distant cube emits a triangular beam above a residential street at night.
  • Two silhouetted people dance inside the fog-filled cube, lit in teal and green, one reaching an arm upward.
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Rainbow beams cut through the fog

Contributions

  • Built the 8-foot cube structure and its controlled fog matrix
  • Aligned two opposing projections to layer imagery through the volume
  • Tuned fog density and content so forms hold while people walk through
  • Run playback and atmosphere as one synchronized system
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