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Osher Gallery 1: Human Phenomenon
Experiment with thoughts, feelings, and social behavior.
Humans think, feel, and interact, and these phenomena are all open to scientific investigation and creative exploration. Here, you and others are the exhibits—so play with social interactions, observe others, and contribute your reflections.
Flourish (Bloom)
This 3-D sculpture is animated when spun under a strobe light. The bloom’s animation effect is achieved by progressive rotations of the golden ratio, phi (ϕ), the same ratio that nature employs to generate the spiral patterns we see in pinecones and sunflowers.
Freeloader
Your dilemma: Play for yourself—or for the group?
Giant Mirror
This giant mirror was originally part of a flight simulator. Its size and near-perfect smoothness makes for astonishing optical (and acoustic) effects.
All the Light You See (Infinity)
When you look at stars—or this neon sculpture—how far back in time can you see? Even light takes time to travel. By the time it hits your eyes, what you see is in the past.
Where: This exhibit is not currently on view.
GALAXY03
Gaze up into this LED galaxy and share a moment of discovery with those around you. This site-specific sculpture visualizes waves of light energy passing through the people below.
Where: This exhibit is not currently on view.
Teardrop (after Robert Irwin)
Teardrop (after Robert Irwin) interweaves delicate, traditional Islamic decorative geometric patterns and architecture with modern materials. The work is inspired by jaalis, intricate carved screens, which cast moving shadows as the Sun rises and falls.
Harmonograms
Ivan Moscovich created these harmonograms with a twin-pendulum Harmonograph. The spirals, ellipses, and figure eights are graphical records of the swinging pendulums.
Human Phenomena Explainer Station
Explainers do social interaction demonstrations.
Inverse Square Law
Light gets dimmer the farther it travels–and a bit of simple math explains how.
Listening Vessels
Enormous parabolic sculptures transmit a conversation—or even a whisper—from one person to another across a great distance.
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