Gemotion screen shows video in living 3D
Here’s a groovy display for people looking to add that extra dimension to their viewing material…
Gemotion is a soft, ‘living’ display that bulges and collapses in sync with the graphics on the screen, creating visuals that literally pop out at the viewer.
Yoichiro Kawaguchi, a well-known computer graphics artist and University of Tokyo professor, created Gemotion by arranging 72 air cylinders behind a flexible, 100 x 60 cm (39 x 24 inch) screen. As video is projected onto the screen, image data is relayed to the cylinders, which then push and pull on the screen accordingly.
“If used with games, TV or cinema, the screen could give images an element of power never seen before. It could lead to completely new forms of media,” says Kawaguchi.
The Gemotion screen will be on display from January 21 to February 4 as part of a media art exhibit (called Nihon no hyogen-ryoku) at National Art Center, Tokyo, which recently opened in Roppongi.
[Source: Asahi]
This is not a new idea. In Expo’67 (Montreal Canada) the Czech pavilion had a multi-screen slide projector system with 224 projectors arranged in multiple screen “cubes” which could move in and out in 3 positions. Overall the imagery could produce the same basic effect as this Gemotion. Also, I worked on laser video projection in the 1980’s, one project for a music video involved projecting onto a rubber screen which expanded and contracted synchronised to the video sequence.
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More similar projects:
“Touch at a Distance”
FoAM [Joris Bois, Nik Gaffney, Lina Kusaite, Maja Kuzmanovic, Steven Pickles, Todor Todoroff and Yon Visell]
http://fo.am/lyt_A/
“Terrain Machine”
John Klima
http://www.cityarts.com/terrain/index.html
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=25
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Hallo. Great job. Ich habe nicht erwarten, dass diese an einem Mittwoch.
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