IDAT106 Workbook: The Territory - Greenscreen

The next segment of these workshops revolves around the use of the greenscreen, located on the front of the Portland Square building. The greenscreen is a grid of bright LED lights layed out into a square grid of 50x80 LEDS, each capable of performing a full RGB spectrum. The recommended resolution of graphics for the greenscreen is 330x500 pixels where you can run any multimedia application such as a flash document or video stream. The recommended use of the greenscreen is to use as much contrast in colour as possible and alot of motion to be able to notice a difference in the picture.

The following video is entitled "Connected Environments" which was a workshop held the previous year in using the greenscreen combined with processing Arch-OS data.



All in all, the greenscreen was designed as a public interface as to where any type of information can be relayed and displayed to the public. Some of the examples in the previous video change the way they look depending on the environment surrounding the screen (wind, temperature etc.)

One other great example of work used on this greenscreen is the Noogy project. The Noogy project was a visual character displayed on the screen of whom that reacted not only to values relayed from the Arch-OS system, but was also capable of watching the public through a video feed and receiving messages via an SMS text system.