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The new Exploratorium is a triumph, decades in the making. Hundreds of artistically pleasing interactive exhibits which would take years to explore to the fullest. The refurbishing of the pier and building was beautifully redone as architecture. Even the restaurant is first rate for taking a needed break outside with lunch, and watching the activity on the bay from a fine vantage point, at the end of a long pier
When first entering the new Exploratorium I first proceeded to the restroom, (being a man of a certain age). This tile wall faced me as I entered. All the tiles are square and the horizontal grout is level and strictly linear.I was amazed at the optical illusion and considered it the first exhibit. I noticed on my camera's gridded screen that the illusion almost disappeared.
I thought it was so cool that I processed the image, and added the horizontal lines as a visual explanation.
The Exploratorium is hosting a "Mind" exhibit, which includes some demos of superstitions and phobias.
Ideum collaborated with Exploratorium’s Global Studios on a project that drew us outside of the realm of multitouch table development. We built a series of highly customized interactives for the Kayseri Science Center in Turkey.
In "Star Colors," visitors play a game to learn about star identification. Embedded in each of the three prop “telescopes” is a small LCD screen where visitors can “view” the stars hanging in front of them. Through a series of prompts received on the Windows Surface Tablet touch display, visitors try to correctly identify stars based on their spectral patterns. Ideum fabricated and tested the telescopes here in New Mexico.
Photo courtesy the Exploratorium.
Featured Scientists: DR. ROBERT J. SEMPER, DR. PAUL DOHERTY, DR. ERIC CHRISTIAN (not shown)
Producer: ROBYN HIGDON
Location Manager: CAROLYN NG
Director: LIZ SPENCER
Switch Operator: NICOLE MINOR
Camera Operators: ROBYN HIGDON, LOWELL ROBINSON
Audio: FRED TETZNER
Telescope Engineer: BILL DEAN
Video Engineers: LARRY KENWORTHY, AARON ROSEN
Yiwu, China
Ideum collaborated with Exploratorium’s Global Studios on a project that drew us outside of the realm of multitouch table development. We built a series of highly customized interactives for the Kayseri Science Center in Turkey.
Ideum’s industrial designers and engineers worked closely with the team at the Exploratorium to build these complex “telescope” props for the “Star Colors” interactive. The telescope utilizes an embedded 4.3" LCD screen to “view” stars hanging in the exhibition space. The stars move across the LCD as the visitor pushes the telescope from left to right. A rotary encoder embedded into a gear box at the base of the telescope relays positional data to an Arduino which then communicates that data to the application running on the Surface tablet. The telescopes were fabricated, assembled, and tested here in New Mexico.
Photo Courtesy the Exploratorium.
Went down to check out the Exploratorium's new location. For two nights they had a show where they projected images on the front of the building. Pretty cool stuff and incredibly well done.
Went down to check out the Exploratorium's new location. For two nights they had a show where they projected images on the front of the building. Pretty cool stuff and incredibly well done.
Went down to check out the Exploratorium's new location. For two nights they had a show where they projected images on the front of the building. Pretty cool stuff and incredibly well done.
Went down to check out the Exploratorium's new location. For two nights they had a show where they projected images on the front of the building. Pretty cool stuff and incredibly well done.