The most significant visual limitation of the previous versions of the Wiremap was their resolutions. With only 85 wires, sometimes the globe would look like a random arrangement of vertical lines, and the cube was, for the most part, an incoherent mess of dots.

I set my sights on 256 wires. To do this, I bought a projector with a 1024 horizontal resolution so that each wire would have 4 pixels dedicated to it. After the long but rewarding build (which involved tying 512 hex nuts to 256 yards of thread), my studio was equipped with a beautifully large volumetric renderer.

Media
	Video of new program on Wiremap 256 Video - 01:36
	Explanation of the Wiremap 256 Video - 04:25
	Working Wiremap 256 Video - 09:12
	Wiremap Programs from Spain Video - 05:04
	Wiremap 256 Rendering a Globe Image - 720 x 373
	Tweaking the Wiremap Image - 720 x 480
Exhibition History
	Friday-Sunday, July 18-20th, 2008 The Last Hope

The blurring issue I faced in the first version of the Wiremap was a hopelessly frustrating problem. The design of the wire layout forced the projector to sit at that very specific distance, but it was the projector's distance that created the blurring problem. I briefly searched the net for short focus projector lenses before I acknowledged that the problem wasn't the lens, it was the wire layout. The only solution to this problem was to build a new frame for the Wiremap. After I drafted up a new design, the build was relatively quick and painless.

This is the very first working version, and it's been providing great results ever since. This is the version I take to exhibitions because it is portable and relatively easy to set up and take down.

Media
	Working Wiremap Video - 06:56
	Wiremap with Mouse Control Video - 02:33
	Closeup on Globe Image - 456 x 304
Exhibition History
	Sunday, June 18th, 2006 Projecting Off the Wall In conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Workshop on "Projector-Camera Systems"
	Wednesday, November 1st, 2006 Presentation at Dorkbot
	Saturday, February 17th, 2007 Exhibition at Vernissage! An event hosted by AdNauseamLyceum

This is the first version of the Wiremap. Unfortunately, it wasn't able to render a globe because of an oversight in the design. In designing it, I had assumed that the projector would be able to focus on wires that were as close as 7 inches away from the projector's lens. It turns out that the closest the projector can focus is about 20". This design oversight led to a blurry image; When the Wiremap tried to render a clearly defined globe of light it produced a sloppy smear of blue.

Media
	Wiremap Explanation Video - 06:15
	Wiremap Update Video - 01:51

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