Walk in the rain without getting soggy

05 October, 2012

In this unique exhibition, people are asked to walk in the rain and surprisingly they don't get wet. But the secret behind this unusual but genuine illusion are the sensors that detect where people are standing in the room.

CALL IT the eccentricities of an artist or simply an experiment, but this 100 sq metre room is a ceratinly a technological marvel. Conjured up by the artists Germans Hannes Kock, Florian Ortkrass and Briton Stuart Wood, visitors experience the rain in this bare room, falling from above without getting wet.

Exhibited in London, people are invited to the place to 'experiment with boundaries' and to see that they can't get wet inspite of walking in the rain. The rain room, so called for the obvious reason is bare and has minimum lighting. The studio behind this piece of art describes it a marvel of 'technical virtuosity' and 'sculptural rigour'.

The makers have used grated floor for the falling water and they have also used a system of valves, and pressure regulators. As was reported by the Mail Online, custom software and 3D tracking cameras are used to stop the water from falling in spots where people are standing. This might seem fascinating for people who do not see it pour at anytime of the day, as normally London people experience. Thus to attract more attention it is free and anyone can step in, watch it rain without getting wet. The technological secret of the art are the sensors that detect where people are standing.

The artists came together in 2005 while they were students at the Royal collage of Art at London. They made the rain room as a social experiment to extract personality types. As people mile in the room, they just watch people's reaction to their experiment. Enthusiastic people may rush in while pessimists would avoid the experiment altogether.