{"id":1005,"date":"2015-07-30T13:24:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T13:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2026-02-07T21:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T21:56:35","slug":"land-like-a-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/land-like-a-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Like A Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This exhibit was originally developed at the Ontario Science Centre. I (Matt Bates) developed the exhibit while I was working there. The version shown here is the one made for Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg Germany. The exhibit records the impact of a visitor jumping as lightly as they can from a raised platform. This impact curve is then displayed afterward measured in G forces. Of course not everyone jumps so lightly!<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1005 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Land-Like-a-Cat_7574.jpg'><img width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Land-Like-a-Cat_7574-300x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/VIS-Land-Like-a-Cat_5855.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-2 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-1005 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/P1000105.jpg'><img width=\"300\" height=\"225\" 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I (Matt Bates) developed the exhibit while I was working there. The version shown here is the one made for <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/land-like-a-cat\/\">Continue &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattbates.ca\/point-of-view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}