Tuesday 24 April 2012

Biomimicry – Ripple Pools


When water is disturbed by movement or vibration small ripples occur on the surface. I came across an experiment by Nodoka UI and Kohthaji SETOH at KEIO University looks at this while focusing on awareness of surroundings.


The ripple pools pick up on vibrations from the surroundings and create ripples on the surface to relate, thereby generating awareness of the surrounding area. For example, if one person is standing stationary to the pool, there will be a singular regular, if two people were to be standing next to the pool, two ripples would be emitted etc. If the movement of the person surrounding the pool was energetic, the pool would produce rapid irregular ripples. I think this is a really good way to subconsciously interactively demonstrate awareness of surrounds, which relates to the folie concept.




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