Animation of "House of Cards" by Radiohead®

An animation of 3-D scatter data.

Description

From http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/ :

"Radiohead just released a new video for its song "House of Cards" from the album "In Rainbows". No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics™ and Velodyne® LIDAR™. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes."

Embracing the remix culture, they released some of the raw data as a download on Google Code and encouraged people to submit their own remixes to the House of Cards YouTube group.

http://code.google.com/p/radiohead/downloads/list
http://www.youtube.com/group/houseofcards

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a)

[Mr Smart]