Cool stuffs

Daniel Rozin makes mirrors out of all kinds of cool stuff. Video. It's an oldie but a goodie.

Wooden Mirror, Rozin's latest creation (on view at program headquarters at 721 Broadway), reflects this tension. The 6-foot-tall video display consists of 830 pieces of gold-toned pine, each wired to its own tiny servomotor. Stand before it and a hidden camera feeds your image, in real time, to a souped-up Macintosh, which parses you into an 830-byte video signal. The Mac then tells each motor to position its pinewood pixel to reflect a specific intensity of light. The result: the world's first live animated woodcut.

from Wired, Dec. '99 (weirdly enough written by Steve Bodow)