The installation, which was 4m long and over 3m high, was an extraordinarily large undertaking.
The CNC-ing of the shoe took over a week in machine time alone, and that didn’t include finishing.
We used 148 servo motors to power the beads, which moved at 25cm per second. Building the animations to project onto the beads was a complex process, and we kept tweaking and improving them throughout the duration of the project to ensure they looked exactly right.
There were many “what ifs” and “therefores” to write into the code, and the team worked hard to determine every single possible scenario.
