Cloud: Heathrow's incredible flip dot animated sculpture

Hanging like a scintillating CGI blob between the escalators of Heathrow Airport's new Terminal Five, 'Cloud' is an incredible kinetic sculpture that channels 4,638 reflective flip dots into an amazing amorphous animation... like a giant glob of liquid metal siphoned out of the gut of a T-1000 and prodded into shapeshifting by electrical pulses.

Cloud [Troika.co.uk via Gearfuse]

[#1 posted by clueless in brooklyn , August 25, 2008 12:06 PM]

I could stare at this all day (while waiting for a flight).

[#2 posted by vamidus , August 25, 2008 12:41 PM]

OMG!
They let these terrorists take pictures inside one of the busiest airports on the planet! They allowed this highly sensitive information to leak on the Interweb! Now the wrongdoers know the secret locations of the escalators and the cloud. Why did they fail to protect the thousands and thousands of innocent lives? Quickly, send the DMCA takedown notice to YouTubes and order all browsers and proxy servers to clear cache! Do a background check on the "artists" behind this; God forbid, they have any arab/muslim/atheist/liberal/dark-skinned family members or friends - we are under attack!
!OMG

[#3 posted by Enochrewt , August 25, 2008 2:31 PM]

I find this thing creepier than the skinned furby video.

[#4 posted by Thinkerer , August 25, 2008 3:35 PM]

Whoever programmed it missed a splendid opportunity to have rain-images that match the "shusshing" sound of the mirrors moving into and out of position. Perhaps they'd rather forget rain there...

[#5 posted by geophile , August 25, 2008 6:49 PM]

It's mesmerizing. I'm sure even more so, in person, for example, to the people riding on the nearby escalators. There will be blood. And pickpockets.

[#6 posted by Anonymous , August 25, 2008 8:57 PM]

They should run The Game of Life on it. It would be amazing on a 3-D surface like that.

[#7 posted by Mark Crummett , August 25, 2008 9:51 PM]

I can't believe they let you stand there and actually take pictures of this thing. London PD is really losing their touch.

[#8 posted by Anonymous , August 26, 2008 5:58 AM]

Damn I missed that two weeks ago.

Actually that link should be troika.uk.com, check out the newton virus for macs

http://www.troika.uk.com/virus.htm

[#9 posted by Anonymous , August 26, 2008 8:15 AM]

It is cool, but that black and silver gives me a kind of late 70s disco creepy feeling.

I like the water feature in the DTW airport:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxNBm4BCt4A