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I love water features that turn wheels and tip buckets. I also like toys where ball-bearings travel along stepped paths and trigger little events. If only they could be combined somehow and made into a piece of public art.
The main motive power comes from a bucket chain lift (what's the proper name?).
The now lofty custard starts its slow liquid journey downwards through a series of water wheels and other such wonders. The wheels provide the power for the next stage - the angled vibrating plate.
As the custard pours onto the plate it is jostled stiff and begins to tumble off the plate down a series of bumpy paths, into chutes where it is accelerated and launched in graceful arcs. It finally makes its way to the model town square, where the now grit sized particled slide into eachother and slowly ooze down the highstreet and into the pool beyond where the viscosity monitor adds water as necessary.
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(-) yawn, bandwagon and proud of it. |
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It's not exactly a bandwagon that I've leaped upon, I feel this idea has merit, it's not just an excuse for custard. I have yet to find a need for jam and bees. |
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Judge a man not by his custard, but by that which he custards. |
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edit: Dammit, I've just thought of a jam & bees idea, I won't post it I promise. |
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If you change it so that it makes use of custard's (well, uncooked custard's) dilatant properties, ie change the idea from one which gratituously uses custard to one in which custard is intrisic, I will bun. |
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Until then, what jutta said. |
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I like it. Custard would become grit sized particle globs easier than other materials. |
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[dbmag9] It is intrinsic. I don't mean actual custard, it's just that it is understood that when you say custard you mean a (dilatant not thixotropic (thanks [bigsleep])) liquid that becomes a solid when agitated. Cornflour and water is the only one I personally know of but I'm sure there are much better ones. |
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A decorative public feature, such as you might find in a shopping centre/mall, which has things being turned, lifted, knocked over, etc by both a liquid and a solid. You could achieve a sililar effect by having a water feature that lifts ball bearings at various points and sets them off on their own little journey, but I prefer the idea of having a single working 'fluid'. |
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//sililar //
sp. sillier (+ for this presumably unintentional malaprop, - for the idea, so neutral.) |
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Sounds more like creative art than invention, though the two are sometimes intermixed. |
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Well, that's why it's in 'culture: art: sculpture' |
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Culture: Art: Sculpture, would make use of yoghurt, shirley? |
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Refrigeration too. Pah, wusses. |
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// a bucket chain lift (what's the proper
name?)// If you mean a sort of
continuous chain or belt that has
buckets attached, and which raises
water by filling the buckets at the
bottom of their travel and tipping them
out at the top (for example, by a sort of
hinge mechanism), such as were used in
Egypt for raising water for irrigating
gardens (first recorded in about
8000BC), and which were often driven
by mules, then I have no idea of the
proper name. |
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