Studies that prove the positive effects of daylight on health and productivity have inspired a slew of lighting products that mimic the sun’s brightness and color as it changes throughout the day. But there are other aspects of natural light’s dynamism that are harder to replicate—like how it moves across a wall, for example, or filters in through the leaves of a neighboring tree.
Designer and engineer Leslie Nooteboom is using algorithmically generated images to solve that problem, with a lovely lighting solution called Komorebi. For his final Masters project at London’s Royal College of Art, Nooteboom designed a table lamp that doubles as a stealth projector, which users can control through a connected app. The projected image moves subtly in the same way as natural light coming in through a window, thanks to an algorithm that randomly generates motion.