Trini, you wrote: >>> They use periphery vision and look in the distance. In the distance what do they see? They see people aligned to the edge of the portable dance floor, which is squared to the walls of the room... Having these portable dance floors delineates the dance floor much better than a wall-to-wall wooden floor with round tables around the edges. Chairs can get pushed onto the dance floor, people can weave in out and of the dance floor. The edge of the dance floor is less certain. <<<
Your comments on the defined edge of the floor being a key ingredient are interesting - I think that has an even greater effect than the lines I talked about, now that I think about it, because it really forces the dense outer edge to define itself against this obstacle of the floor-carpet boundary. It makes me wonder what it might be like to have glowing lines embedded in a floor (still smooth of course) or perhaps just sharp-edged lines projected from above? Perhaps people would stay out of the overhead-projected beams (& in their lanes)because they would otherwise be "spotlighted" as crossing lanes as the beam climbed up their clothes...but then, some would do it even more, just for fun... Recently on Facebook, someone has been circulating a video of experiments in the "Fun theory" - basically, raise the "fun" quotient of something ordinary, and people will change their behavior to "have" the "fun". They showed a video of people choosing a flight of stairs over an escalator because the stairsteps were made up to look like a piano keyboard, and played notes as you climbed. It would be interesting to speculate how to make it more "fun" to navigate well at a milonga through such passive measures. Maybe the better idea would be to project well-defined "linear-V" cones of light JUST into the lanes, so that leaving your lane would temporarily take you into darkness? It would at least make for some nice photographs! All the best, Brian Dunn Dance of the Heart www.danceoftheheart.com "Building a Better World, One Tango at a Time" _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
