What is Color Vacuum?
Color Vacuum is an app that turns your mobile device into a fantastic machine to explore colors around you, search them and imagine new games where you set the rules.
Color Vacuum utilizes the device camera to sample and capture the colors.
The child can collect them observing how each color is made of small quantities of Red, Green and Blue. The colored bulbs and vials show the right amount.
When a color is captured, it floats under the glass, finding its place near similar colors.
Once enough colors are collected, the child can switch to Search Mode. In this play mode, you or your friends can search for the color you collected.
The Vacuum Mode is a harder way to search for collected colors. It requires adding and subtracting a little bit of color every time you tap the blue button in order to reach the goal.
In Color Vacuum there are no set rules to play, nor time limits. You create the game, its rules, where to play and for how long!
Color Vacuum is a Universal app for your iOS device (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad)
Who created Color Vacuum and why?
Color Vacuum was originally invented by Professor Viktor Vapori in late 1800s.
Vapori created many visionary machines that few people have seen or heard of. They were designed to illustrate concepts of science, math, art and nature to his 3 children.
The Color Vacuum machine was protected by an exquisite wood box and contained an handwritten letter from Professor Vapori to his children. In this letter Vapori described the machine, its intended use and the possible play modes.
Curious Hat has recently discovered these machines and we are now bringing them to the public in the form of mobile apps.
Instructions
You control them by turning the dial on the top left of the machine.
When the machine is OFF a mechanical help will appear under the glass.
The rotating hand and the text will guide you.
You can move to the next help panel by pressing the blue button.
Collect Mode
Let’s start by activating the electro-mechanical eye by pressing the ON button on the top left of the machine.
Walk around exploring the colors around you.
The color will be vacuumed into the machine and will become a color bubble floating under the glass.
The more saturated is the color, the closer to the edge it will be and the bigger the bubble.
Search Mode
Let’s start by activating the electro-mechanical eye by pressing the ON button on the top left of the machine.
The colors you collected will still float under the glass.
The small square on the arm will show you the color to look for.
The small circle on the arm will still show you the color you are looking at.
Search the color around you. Even if you are playing by yourself, it will not be so easy to find it again.
When you see the green light on the fifth lamp, you have a match!
Every time you find a color, it will disappear from under the glass and the counter will decrease.
Vacuum Mode
Let’s start by activating the electro-mechanical eye by pressing the ON button on the top left of the machine.
The colors you collected will still float under the glass.
The small square on the arm will show you the color to look for.
The small circle on the arm will still show you the color you are looking at.
Search the color around you. Even if you are playing by yourself, it will not be so easy to find it again.
You have to keep adding and removing Red, Green and Blue until you get to the right level.
This requires coordination and patience!
Look around and find colors that contain mostly Red, Green or Blue. This way it will be easy to solve the puzzle!
If you ever get stuck and cannot find the color, press and hold for over a second the blue button and a new color to search will appear in the square.
