Fish jousting with robotic aquaria

Posted by | December 02, 2002 | technology | No Comments

I just had to find out what ‘reality is a robotic fish tank driven by Siamese’ was.
For a peek into the mind of the criminally insane – or alternatively the mind of installation artists, look no further than this project by Ken Rinaldo: Augmented Fish Reality is a robotic fish tank driven by Siamese Fighting Fish
Here is the gist:
1.Siamese Fighting Fish can apparently see out of their bowls.
2.Siamese Fighting Fish can see other Fish in other bowls.
3. Siamese fighting Fish will swim towards the other Fish with the resoluteness of a search and destroy mission.
4. A lunatic/genius artist puts several bowls of Siamese Fish in a room, each bowl is on a minature electric cart and contains sensors to move the bowl in the direction the fish is swimming in.
5. The whole fish-eye view of the impending carnage is projected on the walls of the room.