The 2nd Urban Science Festival

From July 17^th to August 2^nd 2015, the 2^nd Urban Science Festival was held in Beijing, China. This year is named as the “International Year of the Optics”. This year the festival’ theme will be “light and color”, and it will provide customers a fantastic optic world.

There are many highlights in the festival:

1.The special show of the “International Year of the Optics”

“1001 inventions and the optical world of Ibn Haytham ” Visitors could go into the full-featured giant camera obscura and experience the principle of pinhole image. They can also enjoy the mini movie “Optical world of Ibn Haytham”, “The secrets of library”, arabian-style science skits and numerous optical hands-on workshop.

2.British remote astronomy

There is a giant telescope in the far away Atlantic Ocean. It is located in the vast sea, which can provide it an excellent viewing angle. Many professional astronomical workers carry out their work in this experimental platform. Now, the children in China have the opportunities to work with the astronomers order the telescope to take specific pictures which is located at the other side of the earth.

This picture is made by you. However, you have to answer 20 astronomical questions correctly on our remote astronomy website. Well, don’t worry, because it is just like a game.

3. Magical soap workshop

Do you want to make soap and soap flower? Come to Magical soap workshop, you will realize your dream. You can draw Zodiac honey man by yourselves, using boiled sucrose or maltose and making them into varies shapes, such as people, animal, plants and so on. This is an activity that included in the intangible cultural heritage.

4.Unlimited creativity, Fun Science! Cogito software’s Leonar 3DoVR suite desktop VR equipment, ProDesk3D desktop full colored printer and Toon Boom Storyboard Pro would bring you to create the unique interactive scientific experience.

Leonar3Do Kit

Leonar3Do VR suite is the world's first full-featured desktop VR device. The users can operate the virtual objects in the computer-generated virtual visual world. In order to acquire the accurate and realistic visual effects, we have to add head motion tracking devices so that the computer-generated 3D scene could match the users’ perspectives. Thus users can move, modify, color, remove and set the virtual 3D model, just like they operate the normal objects in the real world.

ProDesk3D is the world’s first 3D desktop printer which can print real full colored stuff. ProDesk3D uses the patent of 5-color ink cartridge system, mixing the main printing color and the coming out personalized objects. You can choose the color of the objects which you would like to print freely.

Toon Boom Harmony is one of the products of Canadian Toon Boom Animation Co. Ltd. It is the best software for the 2D artists. No matter when you make your animation, such as pre-production stage, design stage and post-production synthesis or multi-platform rendering, Toon Boom Harmony is the one and best solution. It has multiple creative freely drawing tools, such as real pencil, transformation tools, internal effects tools, 2D-3D integration tools and so on. Users can use different style to realize their imagination fully!