For all your river pebble sorting needs
Jller is part of an ongoing research project in the fields of industrial automation and historical geology. It is an apparatus, that sorts pebbles from a specific river by their geologic age. The stones were taken from the stream bed of the German river Jller, shortly before it merges with the Danube, close to the city of Ulm. The machine and its performance is the first manifestation of this research.
A set of pebbles from the Jller are placed on the 2x4 meter platform of the machine, which automatically analyzes the stones in order to then sort them. The sorting process happens in two steps: Intermediate, pre-sorted patterns are formed first, to make space for the final, ordered alignment of stones, defined by type and age. Starting from an arbitrary set of stones, this process renders the inherent history of the river visible.
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wakeupandsmellthebacon, Mon 23 May 2016, 9:55,
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and any way that one 3rd row from the back just to left of the brown one is in the wrong place
but what about the stones inevertibaly thrown in by kids adults nazis on holiday or ballast from barges run off from roads or spoil from trenches and shallow graves fossilised mud etc
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fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Mon 23 May 2016, 10:19,
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But it does the work of half a dozen autistic toddlers!
Also, intermediate sorting stage looks like a fish
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wakeupandsmellthebacon, Mon 23 May 2016, 12:50,
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I will never look at a river pebble in the same light again
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Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 23 May 2016, 10:36,
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There's something musical about all that
There's some lovely sounds, tones and overtones... quite melancholic and haunting.
Almost as if the machine is pondering on the futility of existence... let's face it, being made just to sort stones wouldget anyone down.
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Skotzmun Blah blah secret passage blah blah diamonds., Mon 23 May 2016, 13:53,
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