Drone Chandelier (Client Project)
2021
For an artist's proposal for exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) I developed a semi-stylized real-time simulation of a drone carrying a crystal chandelier with user input and responsive physics. The artist wanted to emphasize the rainbows of light refracted from the crytals so I devloped a fake caustics material that projected from the crystals in addition to a camera vector based rainbow material for the crystal pieces.
used with the artist's permission (Lily Cox Richard)
Chandelier Model by Technausea
Demonstration of drone-chandelier sound and physics.
Fake Caustic Light Material Function
Camera Vector Based Crystal Material
Camera Vector Based Crystal Material Closeup
Drone Propeller audio modulated by RPM
Blade Randomization
Drone Vehicle Lift and Turning Behavior
Drone Propeller Mesh Switch from Solid to Blur (High Speed flicker elimation)