Mirage: A Perlin Noise Inspired Lighting Animation
Today we're diving deep into our newest and most sophisticated animation yet: Mirage.
Mirage really makes Fluora feel alive, and pushes the limit of the technology we've been developing for the last 5+ years. It's a lighting animation that unfolds and changes over many hours, rather than a typical lighting animation, which repeats itself over and over again.
Because of this, you can display Mirage in your home night after night, and have it create a tranquil, soothing vibe in your space that never feels old or stale.
It's been no small effort to re-build the 3D lighting engine we use for larger installations for Fluora products, which have way less resources to perform complex calculations.
Because of this, for a while, we weren't able to create more dynamic "procedural animations" for display on Fluora products, even though we used them in our bigger art installations. After lots of lighting engine and overall software optimization, we are finally able to use the Fluora lighting engine to display lighting animations that are generated in real time using algorithms.
Mirage is the first of many to come of more elevated, interesting animations that you will be able to pick from when enjoying our products.
The backbone of the animation is an algorithm called Perlin Noise - which is essentially an advanced random number generator. Perlin Noise was created by an engineer to give more realistic texture to nature and natural textures, when recreating it in video games and computer graphics. It was first used in the original TRON movie that came out in 1982.
Here, we've re-imagined it, and added in unpredictable color changes and gradients, a virtual reflecting lens, and some other surprises.
To display this animation, make sure your Fluora is updated to the most recent firmware and go into the control panel within manual mode, and select the Mirage animation from the list.
Hope you like it as much as we do!