If you cannot visit the World Expo, don't worry. They have the online Expo for you.
Click to one of the sites, they provide you with Eye Level, Bird's Level, Panorama etc. Besides, just press the arrow keys, you can move around to see.
Whenever you click the "+" symbol, the English version will appear. A good way to do the translation of 2 languages.
Besides, i like the way that it designed. You will have the first topic and after you read it, you can click on the "+" side of the right and another topic will appear. It's just like a automatic reader which help you to turn over the page when you finish.
Canvas is a studio located in northern Israel that creates canvas posters in a variety of colors, themes and sizes. Canvas is led by Judea Azoulay who has 15-years of experience in the design industry, in both private and public sector companies, in the fields of publishing, corporate design, web design, interactive projects, and motion-graphic television. At Canvas, we work to hone the meaning and appearance of each poster, and we hope that the cumulative effect of this interactive process makes each poster all the more gratifying.
While the page is loading, the board of Canvas will move according to your cursor movement.
Besides, you can go to different rooms and there are places for you to choose where to stick the posters and you can choose the posters as well!
Don't feel like this website is empty. Though it only consists of few colour bars, what's behind? Loads of information. Mouse over the colour bar, it will read you out the content.
It is convenient for those who cannot read the text. Besides, when we are tired of reading the information ourselves, this website will be useful.
Boundary Functions is realized as a set of lines projected from overhead onto the floor which divide each person in the gallery from one another. With one person in the gallery there is no response. When two are present, there is a single line drawn halfway between them segmenting the room into two regions. As each person moves, this line dynamically changes, maintaining an even distance between the two. With more than two people, the floor becomes divided into cellular regions, each with the mathematical quality that all space within the region is closer to the person inside than any other.
The regions which surround each person are mathematically referred to as Voronoi diagrams or Dirichlet tessellations. These diagrams are widely used in diverse fields, spontaneously occurring at all scales of nature. In anthropology and geography they are used to describe patterns of human settlement; in biology, the patterns of animal dominance and plant competition; in chemistry the packing of atoms into crystalline structures; in astronomy the influence of gravity on stars and star clusters; in marketing the strategic placement of chain stores; in robotics path planning; and in computer science the solution to closest-point and triangulation problems. The diagrams represent as strong a connection between mathematics and nature as the constants e or .
By projecting the diagram, these invisible relationships between individuals and the space between them are made visible and dynamic. The intangible notion of personal space and the line that always exists between you and another becomes concrete. The installation is non-functioning with one person, as a physical relation to others must be present. In this way the piece is a reversal of the often lonely self-reflection of virtual reality - here we are given a virtual space which can only exist with more than one person.
The documentation of Boundary Functions you see here is from Phaeno Wolfsburg, 2005.
Text Rain is a playful interactive installation that blurs the boundary between the familiar and the magical. Participants in the Text Rain installation use the familiar instrument of their bodies, to do what seems magical - to lift and play with falling letters that do not really exist. In the Text Rain installation participants stand or move in front of a large projection screen. On the screen they see a mirrored video projection of themselves in black and white, combined with a color animation of falling text. Like rain or snow, the text appears to land on participants' heads and arms. The text responds to the participants' motions and can be caught, lifted, and then let fall again. The falling text will land on anything darker than a certain threshold, and "fall" whenever that obstacle is removed.
