Another Lobby highlight is the reactive wall that translates movements by people and objects into computer visualizations. Guests' motions influence the visuals in real time.
Refraction of the light of a computer-generated projection on a semi-transparent surface displays the current time. Depending on the side from which the observer views the binary chronograph, the virtual objects in individual read-out fields show the time of day from left to right or from right to left—the hours in a 1-to-12 format and the minutes in a tens field and a ones field.
It works like this: the virtual Zeitwesen react to movements in their immediate surroundings, whereby the position of the observer influences both the objective as well as the subjective flow of time. This is reflected by disturbances in the display.
(Text by AEC Future-Lab)
Refraction of the light of a computer-generated projection on a semi-transparent surface displays the current time. Depending on the side from which the observer views the binary chronograph, the virtual objects in individual read-out fields show the time of day from left to right or from right to left—the hours in a 1-to-12 format and the minutes in a tens field and a ones field.
It works like this: the virtual Zeitwesen react to movements in their immediate surroundings, whereby the position of the observer influences both the objective as well as the subjective flow of time. This is reflected by disturbances in the display.
(Text by AEC Future-Lab)
Project: Chrono
Date: 02/2007
Location: Hotel Spitz, Linz Austria
Client: AEC Futurelab
Contractor: Hotel Spitz
Task: visual design and programing
Date: 02/2007
Location: Hotel Spitz, Linz Austria
Client: AEC Futurelab
Contractor: Hotel Spitz
Task: visual design and programing
Credits:
for AEC Futurelab: Matthias Bauer, Rainer Eilmsteiner, Woeishi Lean, Gerald Priewasser, Carl Johan Rosen, Martin Zeplichal, Martin Bruner, Christoph Hofbauer, Ramsy Gsenger, Michaela Wimplinger.
for AEC Futurelab: Matthias Bauer, Rainer Eilmsteiner, Woeishi Lean, Gerald Priewasser, Carl Johan Rosen, Martin Zeplichal, Martin Bruner, Christoph Hofbauer, Ramsy Gsenger, Michaela Wimplinger.
Time is defined as the measure of motion in regard to what is earlier and later. it thus depends for its existence upon motion. If there where no change in the universe, there would be no time.
(Aristotle 384-322 BCE)
(Aristotle 384-322 BCE)
this is a little shaky video I did with my photo camera. sorry for cheeziness.