The Gene Boogy Woogy Screen

On this screen the sequence is fed into the pattern at the top right where the appropriate base is added to produce a double column of colours. This column is guided around the screen to form a square, and then the square is filled with different sized colours until it finally leaves on the left edge and the display changes to the display of the walking man.

At every new input the whole arrangements of colours change creating a very exciting and dynamic pattern of colour remeniscent of the Mondrian paintings of the 1920's.

The Walking Man Screen

On this screen the sequence is fed along the screen creating the effect of a moving pathway. On this path a man is walking and a display indicated how long he would have to walk before reaching the end of the sequence.

Ancestral Genes

Another series of screens can use the sequence to feed a moving pattern over a fish or a reptile while a text display talks about the series of creatures from whom we have evolved.

Special attention will be paid to the Fugu which shares so much correspondence with the humen genome.

Inside the Cells

Other screens can explore, using the actual changing DNA sequence, the way the cell functions. Miitosis can be made into an animation in which the actual human genome takes part.

Likewise it will be possible to demonstrate the way in which the RNA actually reads sections of the gene and constructs proteins and other molecules within the cell.

A computer screen positioned some distance from the sculpture, displays information on the project, and shows the precise position along the genome that the flashing sculpture has reached.

The computer programme will also control a sequence of computer screens explaining the project and introducing visitors to the ideas.

The aim is to produce a display that is visually exciting as well as being accurately informative. Some of the pages could be projected onto a large screen as a background to the sculpture, or onto the sculpture itself.