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How to Destroy a Building with Light

Posted July 17, 2012 7:38 AM

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On July 4, onlookers in Atlantic City watched with awe as Boardwalk Hall cracked, shuddered, then crumbled to the ground. Then, somehow, the hall erupted in rainbow-colored bricks that appeared to move. It was all an illusion! The historic building remained intact.

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07/17/2012 1:13 PM

Very cool. The technique of projecting an image onto a surface to make that surface 'come alive' has evolved a lot since the early days of Disney's Haunted Mansion, where 'live' faces were projected onto blank plaster human heads, making the heads look real and alive.

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07/18/2012 6:14 AM

Only in the States could you have an

'83-year-old national historic landmark.'

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07/18/2012 7:39 AM

Oh, really?

http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/

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07/18/2012 10:33 AM

Yep:

Bletchley Park was originally built in the early 1880s by London financier Sir Herbert Samuel Leon.

132 years

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07/18/2012 5:57 PM

Hardly the point of it's historical interest, though.

Or was it used for decoding secret WWII German messages even back in the 1880s? Those guys were clever, but I don't think quite that clever.

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07/18/2012 5:15 PM

Thats great.

The Diamond Jubillee concert in the UK recently did something similar with Buck House!!! Taking the walls off and showing bedrooms and the people in them and stuff.....

It appears to be mostly on YouTube, but I did not want to wade through it all for you, sorry!

But I actually found it here for you:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aajY2ahAi3Y

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