xlab Showcase 2024 - Well-tangled ー混淆と調和 -

Helixels <ver. 8x8>

Tomomi Imamura +Mai Kagawa +Yasuaki Kakehi


Helixels is a research project that displays shape performance by moving physical materials up and down, thus creating a further variety of visual textures. Among the linear actuators that make up the shape display, a group of spring-like modules are attached, with each two bridged together. By changing the modules' visible layers based on the height difference between the actuators at two ends, placing different colors and shapes on each layer will impart dynamic visual textures to the modules. In this exhibition, we intend to introduce a tangible texture shape display with 64 linked modules and replaceable modules designed to change visual textures.