Last week 140 banks of LED lights lit up the Queen Elizabeth II Metro Bridge. Over the next 15 years, the 1,181 foot project by artist Nayan Kulkarni will never repeat the same color combo twice as it ripples across the structure, rising and falling in brightness and intensity to match the ebb and flow of the tide below.
The public can influence the colors made on the bridge by sending images to the project's website. The colors found in these digital photographs are turned into color schemes for the bridge.
The QE II Bridge's LEDs consume less energy in a year than is used by the average British household, yet are capable of creating 16.5 million colors (more than two billion color combos across the whole bridge).
[via Core77]
