Features of BABOT
3) Ample massiveness
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1) Somooth Move
2) Soft Machine
3) Ample massiveness
4) Giantic form
5) Appear & Disappear
6) Any place. Any time

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The pneumatic membrane formation is a unique technology of charging compressed air in the membrane to automatically create a form with a feeling of ample massiveness.

As lives of creatures in nature carry out self formation in their growing process, the pneumatic membrane molding creates a natural and organic shape with the aid of expanding air and tension of membrane.

In curving out a shape from a lump, modeling something in clay, and deforming a metal piece by striking to form a figure, a great deal of labor and skill is needed to create curved cubic delineations having a feeling of ample massiveness.

In order to visually transmit the form of babot, it is enough to leave the surface of a body.

Since the calculation of data of surface reflection is good enough to generate a cubic image by means of computer graphics, the content of an object generated by means of computer graphics may be empty.

Likewise, since a pneumatic sculpture is formed using thin surface skin to express a feeling of existence, it is very efficient for energy saving and waste disposal.

Seeing a richly swelled balloon brings about the ease of mind.
Balloons have a kind of mysterious power that brings a human being to an anarchic mood.
In the plump shapes, balloons keep a moderate tension.