The Real and Virtual Fish Tank
A fish tank is characterized by an enclosure with water and live aquatic faunas. Other tanks consist of colorful corals and plants that can enhance the appearance of the mini habitat. These characteristics can be seen in reality. Real live aquariums are attributed by the existence of fish tanks with fish and other aquatic creatures that can be touched right before your eyes. Touching the real aquariums can make your hands and arms wet if you try to dissolve the body parts into the vivarium.
Aquarists have the interest of collecting live fishes, corals, plants and other aquatic creatures to be placed in their wonderfully constructed fish tanks. Setting up of various fish tanks and collecting aquatic creatures have become a hobby. While aquarists could have a great sense of satisfaction and even relaxation setting up an aquarium, some could not find the time nor the money to install one and would just be satisfied watching the motions of the aquatic creatures inside a water-filled vivarium.
Many could find relaxation just watching the movement of fish, plants and water inside an aquarium. Watching real aquariums can stimulate the senses into a relaxed state. It is like being entranced to the beauty of the fishes and the corals. The reaction of some people being stimulated from seeing aquarium is perhaps one of the reasons some tech people have made virtual fish tank.
Virtual fish tank is the aquarium that you can see on your monitor desktop or even on some mobile devices. This is not the real tank as the whole term may imply but a simulation of a real one. This can be found as a screensaver or in computer video games. Some websites have created a simulation of setting up a virtual fish tank. The technology nowadays has become more than surreal that people can have the chance to have things virtually with less or no pretense.
Setting up a virtual fish tank can be made using the computer. Before the widespread use of Windows operating system, a Russian game developer developed a simulation game that can allow the computer users to select and catch fish for putting in virtual fish tank. The game also permits the user to mutate the selective aquatic characters, thus, enabling the users to make creatures in their own tastes.
The simulation game of virtual fish tank that can be played by a single player was created by Animatek and published by Maxis and Mindscape. Released in 1993, this became the first version of a genre of virtual fish tank simulation game. It was used in the platform of Microsoft's MS-DOS and Apple's Macintosh.
Nowadays, there have been numerous games and customized settings of online accounts that involve virtual fish tank. Among the recent that you can find include virtualfishtank.com and Insaniquarium.
Although this kind of virtual material is far from the real one, this could provide a sense of well-being even for non-aquarists.
