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Japan-based Yasutoki Kariya playfully reimagines ‘Newton’s Cradle’—also known as ‘Newton’s Balls’ or ‘Executive Ball Clicker’)—and visualizes Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion using light bulbs, and light as energy.
In the installation ‘Asobi’ (meaning ‘play’), Kariya uses 11 computer-programmed incandescent light bulbs hung from strings—liken to the iconic desktop toy that’s typically made with a line of identical-sized metal balls suspended in a metal frame.
To demonstrate the transfer of kinetic energy (through conservation and momentum)—when the light bulb on one end is lifted and released (lighted up), the light (as the visual interpretation of the energy) moves through the light bulbs in line, and force the light bulb on the other end to go upwards and light up.
[via Spoon & Tamago]
Japan-based Yasutoki Kariya playfully reimagines ‘Newton’s Cradle’—also known as ‘Newton’s Balls’ or ‘Executive Ball Clicker’)—and visualizes Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion using light bulbs, and light as energy.
In the installation ‘Asobi’ (meaning ‘play’), Kariya uses 11 computer-programmed incandescent light bulbs hung from strings—liken to the iconic desktop toy that’s typically made with a line of identical-sized metal balls suspended in a metal frame.
To demonstrate the transfer of kinetic energy (through conservation and momentum)—when the light bulb on one end is lifted and released (lighted up), the light (as the visual interpretation of the energy) moves through the light bulbs in line, and force the light bulb on the other end to go upwards and light up.
[via Spoon & Tamago]