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Boat Ride of Nations
experimentNo. 0034categoryRides & explorationrecordingpendingdataCC BY 4.0
The fly rides a boat through the flooded show rooms of a Florida theme-park boat ride, past 289 costumed fly figures arranged by world region, ending in a white-and-gold finale.
Recording pending publication. Follow along for the release.
Setup
- A ten-minute timeline with eight cues: indoor loading hall, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, Africa, Central and South America, South Pacific, the white-and-gold finale and the farewell.
- All figures are flies: 289 costumed fly figures, nine passenger flies and the fly; the indoor clock face is also modeled as a fly.
- Tracking cameras cover an oblique passenger view, forward ride POV, nearby figures and seated passengers, plus an open-top overview and a finale room view.
- A replay control jumps to the white-and-gold finale.
Measurement
- Retinal-only live input from an eye camera attached to the fly's seat, looking along the boat's forward axis.
- Figure motion and boat navigation are pre-programmed; no motor drives, semantic scene labels or new neural weights are injected.
Limitations
- A reference-based model, not an accurate reconstruction; footprint, portals, scale, figure placements, costumes and per-room timing are approximations.
- 289 is a historical reference count, not a claim about the current installation.
- The original soundtrack is not bundled; the scene has no audio.