Project

Virtual Tree

Canopy Climb is a virtual climbing interface for a rainforest tree. Pulling on the ropes allows the visitor to 'climb' up and down the tree. At the base of the ropes is a log which has a scroll mouse. Stepping on this log will display more information about the organisms in the tree. This is written in HTML, so that museums and schools can easily create their own vertical interfaces such as a journey to the bottom of the sea, to outer space, down a mine shaft, or up a skyscraper. New plastic, vacuum-formed molds for the base of the tree have been made as an exploration of low-cost rapid prototyping tools.