The Moving Games Display
January 23, 2007
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.
Imagine if we could use screens like this in our prototype assignment. Especially if your creating a game. It would sure grab someone’s attention and get them using it.
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Andrew Hall | January 24, 2007 at 8:08 pm
that would be really interesting to see in action! would get really good if they found a way that you could control something with it!
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Garrett | January 24, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Reminds me a little of a dynamic interactive wall which I saw somewhere (possibly on youtube) which was really just a research project about responsive spaces in architecture.
The whole idea was this wall surface on pistons (suspicially like the diagram above) which reconfigured the surface of the wall to reflect how people interacted with it – so you approach it collapses inwards to give you more space, you move away it collapses back out to fill the space. The single demo wall was not hughly impressive on its own but a whole space lined with these would be interesting – even only of as a foyer gimick to move with people as they walk through the foyer.