Interactive displays have always caught my attention. This time, we have the Aperture Interactive Display, designed by Berlin interactive artists Gunnar Green and Frederic Eyl. The concept behind the display is a facade installation that uses thousands of individual mechanical irises. The iris diaphragm matrix reacts to the amount of light in front of it and creates spectacular effects. Darker the object in front, wider the aperture will open. The phenomenon of dynamic translucency creates new images along with a new channel for communication between the interior and exterior. In case, you are not standing in front of it, the display moves back into a memory mode and recollects images and animations captured before and displays them. They have built a functioning prototype in order to get a feeling for what large-scale aperture could look like. Pictured above is person walking along the intelligent surface - the single phases of the movement are captured and displayed by aperture. Check out the video after the jump.

via TheDesignBlog