Wall of 3,000 flowers tracks and mirrors your movements
Imagine 3,000 flowers blooming as you walk past them.
Daimaru, a departmental store in Japan, has put up a flower installation it calls "Flower Mirror," which tracks and blooms to mirror people as they move in front of it.
The installation relies on 800 movable motors, that push out a secondary layer of darker flowers over the lighter hued ones.
Each time someone walks past, sensors detect their silhouette, and the corresponding flowers open in bloom.
The mirror is also able to reflect various shapes, patterns or texts that have already been programmed.
These letters for example, spell out "Daimaru."
The installation measures 4m wide and 3m long (16 x 10ft), and was put up in celebration of Daimaru's 300th anniversary.
It will be available at Daimaru's Tokyo and Kyoto branches until the end of the month -- so go on and see yourself in bloom.
Yvette is a Viral Content Reporter at Mashable Asia. She was previously reporting for BBC's Singapore bureau and Channel NewsAsia.
