About.
For the last 18 years we have been working with a multitude of different projection technologies.
Fossil Optical originates from Bristol and is well known on the
live music and festival circuit. Owing to its success in recent years fossil
optical have progressed into outdoor art based events as well as concerts and
site-specific installations.
Fossil Optical works with Pete Smith, a specialist in 16mm cine
and slide projection, and we have recently collaborated with Pink Floyd
projectionist and master inventor of lighting technology Peter Wynne Willson.
We are developing effects for the brightest projectors in the
world.
Here are some of the areas of research and development we are currently involved with:
Crystal growing
Polarizing (motorized / sound to light)
Photographic multi faceted prisms
Ice melting and freezing
Time-lapse 16m cinematography
Handmade Kaleidoscopes
Computerised control for analogue slides
16m-xenon cine projection
Large format industrial slide projection
Large format projection (modified for effects)
Oil / water / dye projectors
Compressed air
Concave glasses
Fish eye lenses
Moiré patterns (interference between moving patterns)
Screen surfaces
DMX controlled multi effects units (solar systems)
16m continuous loop magazines
Outdoor lighting truss for designing structures
High powered overhead projection