Radiohead recently completed a video for their song "House Of Cards" without the use of video cameras. The movements of Thom Yorke and the actors cast in the video were captured by structured light and lasers.
Large scenes were filmed by using the Velodyne Lidar process, which used sixty four lasers shooting 900 times per minute. Close up scenes were captured by structured light. All of this "footage" will be made available to fans online so they can compile a music video of their own short clips.
I have absolutely no idea how this looks or how it even works so I'm very eager to see how it turns out.
"I always like the idea of using technology in a way that it wasn't meant to be used, the struggle to get your head round what you can do with it", said Thom Yorke.
"I liked the idea of making a video of human beings and real life and time without using any cameras, just lasers, so there are just mathematical points - and how strangely emotional it ended up being."
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Any idea when the vid will drop?
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http://code.google.com/creative/radiohead/
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I'd rather post this to the author of the article, but whatever. This video, despite the claims of the headline, was totally shot using cameras. I actually work at a company that makes these kinds of cameras. They capture light using the same technology as other digital cameras, but instead of using something like a traditional flash, with bright white light, you use a specific frequency of light with special characteristics that allow you to measure how far the light has gone before it returns to the camera, thus providing the depth imaging seen in the video. That's for the big scene. And as for the mention about structured light? That's a technique that uses flashes of bright light from specific positions to capture the depth data. But in this case, the scene is captured with, get this, regular video cameras. The data is just interpreted in a special way to get the depth information.
Sorry for the rant. It's just weird to see the technology that I work with come into the pop culture and then be totally misrepresented.
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thank ya much
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I never really thought of Radiohead as video stars but this one is definately out there