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Dang, I was hoping the blog would go into a little bit about how they accomplished this! Either way though, insanely cool tribute.



Agree! It looks great — I assume they did it pretty much how DMD (Digital Mirror Device) chips in DLP projectors work. The mirrors already have a mechanism to track sun (mentioned in the article), and adjust the direction its reflection should point. they could activate tracking partially to create the image.


I agree! There must be some sort of program written that allows them to put any image on their solar display :)




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