The only installation at Vivid Sydney created entirely by university students, the Celestial Pancake simulates the night sky with 17,500 shimmering LED lights, connected by more than 500km of fibre optic cabling. The pancake uses music to generate patterns with the lights to envelop visitors in an immersive audio-visual experience.
For this year's Sydney Vivid festival UNSW Engineering, Built Environment and Art & Design students cooked up a two-tonne treat – an eight-by-eight meter Celestial Pancake that is suspended from the ceiling of Sydney’s Overseas Passenger Terminal.