Radiohead video on the Google code page

Description: the new Radiohead music video for their song "House of Cards" was created using a technology that captures 3D images as data, without cameras or lights. A version of the video was released on the Google code page, which allows you to manipulate and move in or around the objects as the video is playing using a 3D viewer. You can also download and modify the data to come up with your own version of the video.

Its hard for me to wrap my head around this but apparently neither light nor a camera was used to capture the images in Radiohead's "House of Cards" video, but rather it was created using a combination of technologies that model objects as data. A "Geometric Informatics" scanning system was used to obtain the close-up images of the singer's head, while a "Velodyne Lidar system" was used to capture the large cityscape environments, apparently by shooting some 64 lasers in a 360 degree radius.

To see the video, go to the bottom of this posting. If you want more information check out "The Making of "House of Cards" video on YouTube. (Where, interestingly, I learned that the distortions seen in the video were not only intentional, they actually had to work hard to create them).