GyroGLOW 2017

GyroGLOW 2017

Popularly said, a gyroscope is a spinning top! A rotationally symmetrical mass that can rotate around its axis.

This light artwork is a gyroscope-based construction, featuring lasers and a phosphorescent core, creating a unique scientific phenomenon – phosphorescence, also known as ‘the forbidden light.’ Both young and old will wonder how the path of light is formed on the core of GyroGLOW and how that path slowly fades away. The piece is elevated to allow a 360° view from a distance. GyroGLOW mimics the Earth surrounded by the galaxy, with stars leaving a luminous trail, conveying the idea that our universe has existed for billions of years, and the place where the star is observed may not always be the most current. GyroGLOW is an ode to the universe in which we float…

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" T h e g a l a x y o f E i n d h o v e n . "

About the artist

Fontys Students Technische Natuurkunde & Engineering

The designers of GyroGLOW are a group of passionate students from Fontys University of Applied Sciences, brought together in a project team. Some of them are studying Technical Physics.: Femke Cappon, Joep Kusters, Coling van Melsen and Michiel van Vegchel. Others are studying Mechanical Engineering: Maurice Cornelissen, Bas Plaum and Pim Sluys and two students from Mechatronics also participated in the project: Guus de Haas and Rick Sturme. Together, they came up with four concepts during a brainstorming session, and GyroGLOW was ultimately developed from those ideas.

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