Reuben Margolin's Magic Wave

Reuben Margolin's Magic Wave (installed at the Swiss Center for Technorama near Zurich) employs 450 suspended aluminum rods on 256 wires with 3,000 pulleys and sliding bars (and no computers or microcontrollers) to create a wave-like motion.



Margolin has an earlier & smaller version, The Wave (2005), that uses cams to achieve the motion:



Visit Margolin's website for videos of The Wave.

See my earlier posting about Tim Prentice for a sculpture that achieve similar motion using wind power.