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Comparing to doing calculation simply by clicking buttons in digital devices nowadays, the process of using abacus to calculate performs a much more analog way. We can draw the graph below when take the position between the beads and horizontal beam as Y axis, the number it presents as X axis. | Comparing to doing calculation simply by clicking buttons in digital devices nowadays, the process of using abacus to calculate performs a much more analog way. We can draw the graph below when take the position between the beads and horizontal beam as Y axis, the number it presents as X axis. | ||
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Revision as of 10:13, 7 August 2016
Analogter
Purpose
"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.
What is abacus
The Abacus is at once one of the oldest, most enduring, and efficient products of the human mind. It appeared early before arabic numbers, so it doesn’t have a sense of numbers. Abacus does the calculation according to the different beads and the position of them to represent different numbers. The upper bead represents 5 and each bead below the horizontal beam represents 1. And the beads are considered to be calculated when they move close to the horizontal beam.
Comparing to doing calculation simply by clicking buttons in digital devices nowadays, the process of using abacus to calculate performs a much more analog way. We can draw the graph below when take the position between the beads and horizontal beam as Y axis, the number it presents as X axis.
