Tree-shaded screen: A Propeller type screen for Public Art

Abstract
Tree-shaded screen is a novel artwork for the public space. One can also think of it as a novel virtual reality system. The artwork consists of a surround couch, a column, and a propeller with six blades. When we sit down on the couch, we can see the propeller above. A high reflective screen material on the propeller's blades brightly reflects the images that are projected by two projectors. The display uses human's afterimages to form a complete continuous display. This artwork is like a short resting place for people, a metaphor for a mother tree that shades many creatures in nature. This artwork was designed for an installation in the Haneda airport, which is the biggest airport in Japan. We use birds as a metaphor of airplanes. Birds' behavior animation is projected on the propellers. The birds behavior is synchronized with a flight timetable of the Haneda airport. The couch looks like a bird's nest made from a new material. We exhibited the tree-shaded screen at an open-campus and evaluated it. We will exhibit this artwork in the Haneda airpot in October 2009.
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@inproceedings{
:10.2312/EGVE/JVRC09/101-104
, booktitle = {
Joint Virtual Reality Conference of EGVE - ICAT - EuroVR
}, editor = {
Michitaka Hirose and Dieter Schmalstieg and Chadwick A. Wingrave and Kunihiro Nishimura
}, title = {{
Tree-shaded screen: A Propeller type screen for Public Art
}}, author = {
Kunihiro, Nishimura
and
Suzuki, Yasuhiro
and
Tokuda, Yutaka
and
Iida, Tomohiro
and
Kajinami, Takashi
and
Tanikawa, Tomohiro
and
Hirose, Michitaka
}, year = {
2009
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association
}, ISSN = {
1727-530X
}, ISBN = {
978-3-905674-20-0
}, DOI = {
/10.2312/EGVE/JVRC09/101-104
} }
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