
Disheartened by the fact that Picsel had joined Microemissive Displays and gone into administration, Gaerlunzie took his mournful graffiti eye onto the web, idly looking for a lead on the Edinburgh creator of an immensely characterful hagis spotted on some local hoardings.
He didn't have much joy there, either, but was quite please to discover
Lumacoustics which describes itself as a small creative company that grew out of the Bristol street art scene working with artists and music promoters to create leading edge visuals.researching, designing and building interactive and engaging visual experiences.
While Lumacoustics clearly doesn't believe in publicising its own people, it
has come up with some neat visual software that allows video, 2D and 3D generative content to be calibrated and displayed on any size or shape surface, using an unlimited number of projectors. This means any surface can become a high- resolution video display, from a car to an entire building.
Better still, it offers interactive visual installations, or instant graffiti on a whiteboard on YrWall a typical interactive computer digital art paint program crossed with a simple animation package, enabling users to easily create and explore colours, textures and movement.
Artistic digital creations can then be saved, recalled and played back, as well as utilised in a number of other ways to create unique and personal mementos of their digital graffiti experience.
For example, the user will have the option receive a copy of their creation by email free of charge and to email friends and family with a virtual 'postcard' from the event. A recent addition to YrWall allows T-shirts and stickers to be printed for the user to take away.
Gaberlunzie is waiting for YrWall to become his wall and be available on his next smaller white screen mobile phone upgrade, where he can work on developing a style for hagis!