“Garden Agua: Three-Dimensional Tangible Display Enabled by Arranged Water Jet” by Guo, Yi, Choi, Yoo and Lee
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- Garden Agua: Three-Dimensional Tangible Display Enabled by Arranged Water Jet
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Levitation refers to the process of floating in the air in a stable position without physical contact points against gravity. This was a mysterious phenomenon that many have wanted to experience for many years. Such wishes are expressed in the Bible, for instance when Jesus crossed the Red Sea, and when Peter wanted to walk on water with Jesus. Such phenomena, floating in the air and walking on water, were nothing short of miracles to people. Garden Agua was devised to realize these human aspirations.
Levitation refers to the process of floating in the air in a stable position without physical contact points against gravity. This was a mysterious phenomenon anyone has wanted to experience once, from long before. Such wishes are expressed in the Bible, as the Jesus crossing across the sea, and as Peter who wanted to walk on water with Him. That much, floating in the air and waling on water were phenomena short of a miracle to people. Garden Agua was devised to realize those aspirations of people. Garden Agua differs from the works representing two-dimensional writings or images, or doing simple interactions. It can express the real-time three-dimensional Depth received by Kinect in instantaneous water height, and can be easily utilized as a musical instrument playable by anybody as well. Among current applications, music in the form as ‘Tone Matrix’ can be played by putting the ball in place at the height of water where the desired sound of the user is generated. Typical ‘Tone Matrix’ instrument is difficult to play using various instruments or many octaves of sound because it is simply played using the two-dimensional space. However, Garden Agua can play a variety of music by additionally using Z-axis, the height axis, because Garden Agua takes advantage of the three-dimensional space. Garden Agua deserves to claim that Levitation is not simply the floating of an object in the air by the power of itself, but the living of a secondary life with new energy endowed from the water, a medium that symbolizes life. Through this work, we will bring new life to things that cannot breathe.
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