Leen van Wijngaarden will present his work at fab*education!
Molecular City
All matter in our environment consists of small particles, molecules.
The molecular world is the world of chemistry. The molecular world is a world
of beauty, generally well appreciated by chemists. In order to demonstrate and
share this world a walk is designed in which the chemical world behind everyday-objects
is shown. All sorts of knowledge are explained during the walk. By using modern
techniques like augmented reality and smart phone technology it is made
possible to discover this world in 3D animations.
On different materials and objects tags are attached, with a text and a
marker. The marker is a code to be recognized by a Smartphone camera, which
will then show an animation superimposed over the real time image. Molecular
structures of simple molecules like water can be easily visualized, as well as
polymers, proteins, DNA etc. It might be possible to have short video clips.
Molecules come alive with this app …
Science LinX developed the Smartphone app ‘Molecular City’, with which
you can bring molecules to live. During festivals and special occasions Science
LinX provokes you to explore the markers … scan the markers with the camera of
your Smartphone and discover the molecular world in 3D. As from the
‘beer’-molecule at the bar, through a urine molecule at the toilet. And they
talk to you.
The app has been lounged in four languishes
(German, English, Chinese and Dutch)
Master class the beauty of mathematics
Each year Science LinX
(Groningen) organizes two days workshops for oncoming students for the university of
Groningen. A broad variety of workshops are offered of which some are developed
and organized in corporation with the FabLab. The FabLab is used as a high tech
manufacturing workshop. Besides this, the knowledge of the FabLab community
(creativity, art and technology), serves as a source of inspiration for the
connection between the beta sciences and daily life.
In corporation of Jaap
ter Reegen (Technacium), professor Jaap Top (university of Groningen), Leen van
Wijngaarden (Fablab Groningen) developed a workshop for students on mathematics
and 3D production.
After an introduction on the mathematics of stacked lines by Jaap Top,
the students started programming in GeoGebra, an open source algebra program.
Using a complex equation with three variables and linear curves, 2D shapes are
created. The shapes are exported to the laser cutter and stacked. With this,
the students produced a complex 3D shape starting with elementary mathematics
of an equation and different parameters, through 2D shapes to the final model.
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