Fun with Radiohead’s data from ‘House of Cards’

posted Jul 21st 2008 1:10pm by Will O'Brien
filed under: laser hacks, misc hacks


Radiohead recently released the 3D data that was used to create the video for their song ‘House of Cards’. You can see the original video and grab the data from here. [Micheal_z] sent in some of the results of his groups playtime with the data. The first effort involved some data translation. Then they created an atomizer of the head and put it up on their ungodly huge 8160×4000 pixel multi-touch display. The video above was created by tracking the background image to orient and overlay the projection.

Radiohead releases laser music video with data

posted Jul 14th 2008 2:00pm by Caleb Kraft
filed under: news


Radiohead has released their music video for “House Of Cards.” We’ve already covered some of the tech involved. If making an entire video without cameras wasn’t edgy enough, they’ve released all the point data for people to play with and remix. The band is encouraging people to post their creations to their YouTube group.

Head over to their Google Code page to watch a making of video as well as view some of the datasets in 3D. There is a link to the entire dataset for download as well.




Radiohead makes entire video with friggin’ lasers

posted Jul 11th 2008 5:50pm by Caleb Kraft
filed under: news


[Radiohead], being no strangers to out of the box delivery ideas, are preparing to release a new video that was created without the use of cameras. The entire video for the song House of Cards was “filmed” using lasers.

The system, known as Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar, scanned the entire environment 900 times a minute to capture an entire party in real time.

The video was originally set to be released in mid July, but appears to have been moved back.

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