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An Interactive Poetic Garden
The garden is the symbol of man´s control over nature. An Interactive Poetic Garden attempts to bring the computer into the garden in harmony with stone, water, and plant materials. The computer is used to drive a video projector, creating the illusion of text floating on the surface of the water.
The interactive poetic garden design is based on a square divided up again into a series of smaller squares, a design which can be traced back to the earliest formal gardens of Persia. Water enters at the back of the garden and cascades down a series of pools until it reaches a large square one. Words appear to tumble down the rocks along with the water, calmly pull themselves through the shallow pool, and then magically reappear at the top of the stream along with the water.
Sitting on the edge of the pool – but without getting your hands wet – you can interact with the words through a special hand interface letting you stop the word flow, push and pull words, and over time change the content of the words themselves.
Signature: David Small, Tom White / USA
Source: Ars Electronica Center
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