Khronos Projector: Messing with the concepts of space and time

Filed Under Art on 2008-10-20, 16:55

Prompted by a twitter, I revisited a project I was amazed at several years ago, the Khronos Projector. It’s an incredibly cool project that blew my mind when I watched videos of it back in 2005. I hope to some day catch it in person and get a chance to play with it. I’ve shown people the videos off and on, but realized I never made an actual post about it. So here it is!

Basically the Khronos Projector takes your normal 2 dimensional picture and adds ~~the 3rd~~ an additional dimension of time. You interact via a touchscreen of sorts (depending on the setup) and can rewind/fastforward time in only parts of the image. They’ve also added video input since I’ve last checked up on the project, which really starts to mess with your concept of space & time. It can be a bit difficult to describe in words. Seeing it in action makes it all “click”:

Khronos Projector (few demos):

A new way to interact with a soccer game:

Khronos Projector (live video input + Chromatic Time mode):

While I was looking for Khronos Project online, I came across something else that played with time/space and video with realtime input and altered output. It’s just a proposal from Liam Mclaney as far as I can tell, but it has a really neat video to go with it (his post explains how it works):

Tagged: Khronos Project, time/space, Video

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StoneCypher on October 21st, 2008 1:19 am

Don't want to be too much of a pain, but time is the 4th dimension. The third dimension is simply being used as the locus of control for this concept.
You can refresh on quantum physics and the 10 known dimensions here:
http://www.tenthdimension.com/medialinks.php
edrabbit on October 21st, 2008 3:01 am

Thanks for the input!

I recognize time is regarded as the 4th dimension, however when writing this I was reflecting on a 2 dimensional image with an additional dimension (time) being added. Images give the illusion of depth but are 2-D representations. I wasn't sure how to word it because the question going through my head was “Can you have a 2 dimensional image with a '4th' dimension of time, without a 3rd dimension of depth?” I guess it kind of becomes more of semantics issue. I've reworded the post a bit regardless. :)
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