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code.google.com/creative/radiohead/

“Radiohead 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.”

All data used to make the video is offered for download so people can create their own visualizations. As of today, House of Cards YouTube group features 82 user videos.

Congratulations to the brilliant Aaron Koblin (who got his MFA at Design | Media Arts department at UCLA) for this milestone project!

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