tamable looper is a tabletop interactive system that uses clusters of sphere shaped magnets for its expressions. We enable not only to move and deform shapes of the object, but also to design postures and flexible expressions. Arrayed electromagnets are controlled individually and curtain patterns of its manipulation are designed. Users can also interact with the looper-like behaving object by gestures, which creates a relationship as if they are taming a creature. This is also one of the group of works in which inorganic material is set in motion and thereby evokes the distinctive behavior of certain living creatures.

Publications

• Michinari Kono and Yasuaki Kakehi. tamable looper: Creature-like
  expressions and interactions by movement and deformation of clusters of sphere shaped magnets. Journal of The Virtual Reality Society of Japan, Vol.18, No.3, pp.297-304, 2013. (Peer Review)

• Michinari Kono and Yasuaki Kakehi. 2012. tamable looper: creature-like expressions and interactions by movement and deformation of clusters of sphere magnets. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 Posters (SIGGRAPH ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 25, 1 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2342896.2342928 (Peer Review)