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Desert Pulse: Art Installation Showcases Desert Ecosystem's Evolution

3/1/2026

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Desert Pulse, an art installation at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, merges art and data to present time-lapse imagery of the desert's vibrant ecosystem.
Matt Shaw and Will Trossell, U.K. architects, used a 3-D LIDAR scanner to capture millions of data points.
ScanLAB Projects transformed this data into dynamic digital representations of the desert's life cycle.
The resulting display illustrates the desert's constant changes over time.

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Story summary

Desert Pulse, an art installation at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, merges art and data to present time-lapse imagery of the desert's vibrant ecosystem.
Matt Shaw and Will Trossell, U.K. architects, used a 3-D LIDAR scanner to capture millions of data points.
ScanLAB Projects transformed this data into dynamic digital representations of the desert's life cycle.
The resulting display illustrates the desert's constant changes over time.