Large-Scale Analog Tetris
The other day, I wrote about Large-Scale Pixel Art. But to tell the truth, I have another idea using the large building at my university. It's a "Tetris" game. I don't need to explain about "Tetris". It's one of the most famous games in the world. Whenever I see the large building at my university, I think of "Tetris".
"Tetris" has high compatibility with pixel art because the game canvas is a matrix. At first, I thought that I could implement a large-scale Tetris using projection mapping. However after I tried some experiments with large-scale image projection of the building, I couldn't help giving it up. Because the surface of the building is glass. As I told you the other day, it's quite hard to project images on glass. Glass penetrates light. As a result, I'm now thinking about large-scale analog "Tetris", not projection mapping.
Analog "Tetris" is based on humans. My idea is that we let one person have colored papers and assign him/her to one window. Then, the mastermind tells each person a color per second through a smartphone. When each person receives the instruction, he/she picks up the colored paper and shows it through the window. Needless to say, the mastermind is a concurrent program, not a human. I can imagine the outline of the program and algorithm. It's not so difficult but a little bit complicated. But I restrict the movement of the parts of Tetris. The movement of one part is one per second. Then, one part can't move in horizontal and vertical directions at the same time. The deformation of one part is complete in one second. Moreover, I also restrict the times of the deformation. While the deformation of a part, the part doesn't fall downward. The mastermind program tells each person a color like "red", "blue", "green", "none", and so on. "None" means that the person doesn't show colored paper through the window.
There are 270 windows in the building. In other words, The large-scale analog Tetris is implemented by 270 people and one master program. If it can be implemented, it will be a large-scale interesting installation.