Vivarium
On Tuesday 15th was that final presentation of the Vivarium-Project. That was the cooperation project between the "Fachhochschule" and the University of Magdeburg for this year. Every(?) semester is such a class with mixed teams of design and computer visualistic students from both academia.
This year they made a virtual aquarium that you can interact with. They used OpenCroquet as base for programming the fish tank, all the fish are real 3D-objects.
It all seemed a little bit like Sachs Marine Aquarium Screensaver but is actually modelled on the virtual aquarium in Boston.
It was real dark there, only lit by the light of the screens and dim blue lamps, what gave me a hard time taking photos without a flash, what I as usually didn't want to do.
In this game you throw tennis balls at fish so they turn around and swim in the other half of the screen, to your opponent.
This is the screen of that game, with the pipe under the screen you can let water out and with the watering can it can be refilled.
Here you can feed the fish with a ball that you put through the holes at top of the installation.
Caro, Christine (head of the class), Grit and Christine's kids. The girl at the right, I don't know the name. Christine's kids are feeding the fish and are doing a way better job than Grit just before ;)
Caro feeding fish, and on the right Chih-Hang (I hope I got his name right), one of the designers of the game. I like this picture even Caro is so blurred (it would be nicer if not) with here arm going so close to the camera and Chih-Hang looking at the screen.
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