Since residents of Seoul, South Korea, canât exactly enjoy the sight of ocean waves breaking on the shore during their lunch hour, a design house is bringing them the next best thing: An enormous screen that plays realistic waves on a loop in the middle of the city.
Travel + Leisure reports that the installation, titled WAVE , is an anamorphic illusion, a distorted image that the viewer must observe from a specific angle for it to appear multi-dimensional. Itâs on display in K-Pop Square at the Coex Convention and Exhibition Center in the district of Gangnam, but you donât have to book an international flight to check it outâthe creator, a design company called dâstrict, shared a mesmerizing video of the work on YouTube.
Over about two months, developers molded two LED displays together to create a screen approximately 262 feet by 65 feet, with a resolution of 7840 pixels by 1952 pixelsâalmost twice the resolution of ultra-high-definition. In other words, the waves on this screen look more convincing than footage of the actual ocean would on your state-of-the-art living room TV.
For 18 hours a day, locals can watch icy blue swells slosh against the sides of the virtual tank, complete with the tranquil sounds of crashing waves (though theyâll have to rely on their imaginations to catch a whiff of salty sea spray).
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[h/t Travel + Leisure ]
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