Slideshow: Everything is Illuminated

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For a live performance at the Tate Modern museum in London in 2006, UVA collaborated with the all-female acrobatics trio Mimbre. UVA used a stereo-imaging camera to create a real-time depth map of the human performers, then rendered the point cloud on a large LED screen behind them.

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Slideshow: Everything is Illuminated

United Visual Artists is a London-based group of engineers, artists, and designers who create technologically sophisticated light displays.

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