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Aha! Experience

Aha! Experience

Challenge yourself with Aha! Movie and Aha! Change!

  • Aha! Experience
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  • Aha! Experience

mechanismOur visual perception function is good at recognizing fast changes, but we have trouble acknowledging changes that occur slowly.Also, if a monotone image is placed between two other images, we are unable to see how the images changed.But when we do realize this difference, we are surprised and focus on that part, making the change obvious.This process of recognizing image change is also the process of being inspired, and so we call this experiment the Aha! Experience.

Exhibition Contents List

  • Holowall Table

    Holowall Table

    Try and make various shadow puppets.

    mechanismThere is an infrared camera inside the large screen that recognizes shadow puppet figures.The computer generates the matching CG image formed by the shadow casted by your hands.There are 10 shadow puppet figures that correspond to 10 CG animal images.Three people can play at the same time.

  • Red Green Goggles

    Red Green Goggles

    Experience the change in your perception of color!

    mechanismInside your eyes are light-sensitive "cone cells"that detect color.Your experience of color is based on the combination of cone cells that respond to light.We are able to see a variety of colors thanks to these light sensitive cone cells.

  • Marble Market

    Marble Market

    Play with the latest sensor technology!

    mechanismThis game incorporates SmartSkin, a sensor technology developed by Sony Computer Science Laboratories,Inc. The computer measures the positions of the people touching the table.No matter how many people there are, it can simultaneously acknowledge every player.

  • Biological Motion

    Biological Motion

    What do the movements of the dots symbolize?

    mechanismThe brain has the ability to guess and judge the motion of visible things. The brain is able to imagine and deduce from simple dots whether a figure is a man or a woman and what a person is doing.

  • CyberCode

    CyberCode

    [CyberCode & Web Camera]
    What is installed in CyberCode?
    [Active CyberCode Keyboard]
    Play with the sounds installed in the code.

    mechanismThe CyberCode is a 2D code, developed by the Sony Computer Science Laboratories and designed to make camera-mounted computers early find it in the real world.When a CyberCode is shot with camera, 3D coodenates and gradient date as well as the ID of each code can be recognized in a real-time manner.Furthermore, depending on the read data, various information and 3D graphics are displayed on the monitor in tune with the code direction or movement.Watching through the camera, you can feel as if the information or graphics.

  • DataTiles

    DataTiles

    Try to control the time data installed in the tiles through fast-forwarding and rewinding.

    mechanismThis is a new interface developed by the Sony Computer Science Research Center.From a split instant that cannot even be caught by the eye to a period of several months and years, you are able to actually compare them on the screen and experience the mystery of time perception.

  • Motion Magic Mirror

    Motion Magic Mirror

    Let's communicate with a mirror world.

    mechanismTwelve control buttons will take you to different virtual worlds.You can experience flows of time or worlds of fire or ripples or sparkling particles. Interacting with your image on screen will make you feel as if you were talking to yourself inside the mirror.The combination of real time image processing and real time computer graphics has resulted in the special video effects.

  • Stylish Bone

    Stylish Bone

    The letters and images you write will change to sound. Can you discover the hidden trick?

    mechanismEach Chinese character has its original hieroglyph. Stylish Bone System converts drawn Chinese characters into images and sounds that represent that represent the meaning of the drawn characters.

  • Pulfrich's Pendulum

    Pulfrich's Pendulum

    Put on the glasses and look at the pendulum.What do you see?

    mechanismWhen you put on the glasses, the pendulum looks like it is spinning.The secret behind this lies in the mechanism of the human eyes and brain.When we see an object, our right eye and left eye are seeing different images.These images are put together in the brain and then become information. The right lens of these glasses is black, so information taken in from the right eye reaches the brain with a delay.This results in a discrepancy between the positions of the pendulum acknowledged by each eye.That is why the pendulum looks like it is spinning with the glasses on.

  • ResolutionMagic

    ResolutionMagic

    Examine the secrets behind high-resolution TV images.

    mechanismThe board in front and the receive board are connected through 1,200 pieces of optical fiber.Each piece serves as a TV pixel. By turning the spinning disk, you can switch the number of pixels from 300, 600, 900, to 1,200. The higher the number of pixels, the clearer the image of the heart on the screen.

  • Light Stick

    Light Stick

    What do you see?

    mechanismThis light stick flashes computer generated patterns of red light. When you sweep your eyes across the blinking patterns, the light-sensitive cells in your eyes retain what you see for a fraction of a second.This process, called "persistence of vision", makes it possible for you to see the pieces as a whole image.

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