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-== Purpose ==
+== Analogter ==
-The abacus (plural abaci or abacuses), also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool that was in use in Europe, China and Russia, centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu–Arabic numeral system and is still used by merchants, traders and clerks in some parts of Eastern Europe, Russia, China and Africa.------ from wikipedia. As a Chinese, I was learning abacus when I was at elementary school. However, abacus was going to disappear from the education after that, and the usage of abacus is less and less. You can still find a few who play abacus quite fluently and the performance when they play abacus at my sight really interest me a lot.
+== Introduction ==
+"Analogter" is an interactive and automatic calculation machine which simulates the interface and logic of Abacus, and above all, enlarges the analog process of Abacus to calculate the amounts of visitors in a performative form.
+As a calculation process which needs to be well trained and once defined abacus as a efficient tool, nowadays literally causes hardly use of abacus. Compared to nowadays calculation technology operated by simple click by button, abacus enlarges the process of calculation in an analog way. The calculation process which used to be passively controlled by human is going to be designed as an interactive and automatic calculation installation calculating the amounts of visitors.
 In this project, I want to design a interactive installation based on the algorithm of Chinese Modern Abacus, which has one bead on each rod in the upper deck and four beads each in the bottom for decimal computation.