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An interesting art/science exhibit is underway called “Terre Natale (Exit 2)”, where they created a 30-minute immersive visualization of human migration data.

Visitors enter a dark rotunda to discover a mirror-image Earth revolving around the room, printing animated maps and data to the wall’s curved surface. Divided into five narratives, this piece quantifies both voluntary and forced movement across the globe due to political, economic, and environmental factors.

It premiered in Paris in 2008, and combines technologies from a wide variety of sources: Processing for the visuals, ZKM for the projectors, and several hands in the layout.

See videos & pictures of the exhibit at their site.

via Terre Natale (Exits 2) | Stewdio.

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Canon has partnered with a museum in Japan to create an augmented reality exhibit of dinosaurs as part of the “Dinosaurs-Miracle of the Desert”.

Visitors will be allowed to don a pair of virtual reality glasses that will display nearly life-sized three-dimensional images of various dinosaurs right there on the museum floor. Displaying over 260 dinosaur specimens, some of the virtual creatures in the exhibit will also move, adding to their realistic effect.

via Canon launches virtual reality dinosaur exhibit in Japan | DVICE.

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A new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York uses computer simulations and visualization to show what Manhattan island looked like when it was first discovered back in 1609.

The show’s imagery, created by Markley Boyer, even allows us to envision Manhattan as it might have looked in 1609, when Henry Hudson and his men sailed past. It was a verdant paradise. Its temperate climate and its location atop an estuary, where freshwater and saltwater meet, created, Mr. Sanderson suggests, a habitat of extraordinary diversity.

via Exhibition Review – ‘Mannahatta/Manhattan – A Natural History of New York City’ – Manhattan – An Island Always Diverse, at the Museum of the City of New York – NYTimes.com.

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