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Elevators are dull, dull dullity dull.
To alleviate tedium, MaxCo. Elevation Inc. is proud to announce
the
Elevertiginator System.
The heavy-duty glass floor of the elevator
protects a full-floor, high-resolution flatscreen display.
When on the ground floor, the screen displays, beneath
your feet,
a
close-up image of a rocky canyon floor, or any other chosen scene.
As you ascend, so the image of the ground beneath your feet
recedes
and falls away with alarming rapidity. As you approach the upper
floors of the building, you find yourself staring down past your
feet
at distant floor of the Grand Canyon, or perhaps a receding Saturn
V
launch tower.
The apparent ascent can be scaled so that, for example, a 10-floor
ascent looks, on the screen below you, like a thousand-foot climb,
appropriately scaled for speed.
For a less economical price, the walls, doors and roof of the
elevator
cab can likewise carry flat screens, giving you the full-surround
vertiginous experience.
Powers of Ten
http://www.youtube....watch?v=1Z53wTtGGA0
an essential classic [Laughs Last, Jul 30 2009]
Mystery_20Train
prior horizontal version [xenzag, Jul 30 2009]
Marco Brambilla: Civilization
http://motionograph...billa-civilization/
An animated collage that riders ride past (on the side, not the floor), from hell through civilization to heaven. [jutta, Jul 30 2009]
I think a Buchanan family trip to the CN Tower is called for...
http://www.thestar.com/videozone/412938
No virtuality here! [DrCurry, Jul 31 2009]
Max's idea illustrated.
https://www.dropbox...n3&st=52rwv4o1&dl=0
[doctorremulac3, Nov 14 2024]
[link]
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Personally, I'm a big fan of unexciting elevator journeys. + though, nevertheless. |
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At Rockefeller Center the elevator has a glass roof overhead and some interesting lighting effects through the shaft. Sortof interesting. |
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Everytime the elevator switches directions, it should change scenery + |
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Perhaps the _lift_ could be fitted with hydraulic jacks like one of those fairground "simulator" rides, and the screens could show a nauseating twisting turning dive past sharks and dinosaurs, dodging comets and machine gun fire (with quadrophonic sound effects) before screeching to a halt at the entrance to the Human Resources Dept. |
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edit: //Elevators are dull, dull dullity dull// have you considered using the stairs? |
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Good heavens jutta, I've watched that link 3 times
now. So very neat. Thanks! |
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When I went there, the CN Tower in Toronto had glass doors on its elevators, so you could watch the city falling away beneath you as you rose. Now, apparently, they have glass floors, too. See link. |
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I could definitely see this in a museum or an theme
park somewhere. |
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Maybe some sounds to go with it, at various heights? |
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Floors 1 to 10: Nervous giglling
Floors 11 to 20: Tense silence
Floors 21 to 30: Deep, controlled breathing
Floors 31 to 40: Faint whimpering
Floors 41 to 50: Retching
Floors 51 to 60: Humming, while rocking backwards amd forwards with arms around body, eyes tightly closed
Floors 61 to 70: Cheyne-Stokes breathing
Floors 70 to 73: Silence
Floor 74: Ominous heavy thud
Floors 75 to 80: Silence
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Especially if the building is only 73 stories high. |
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Serves you right for visiting Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, then ... |
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Nice, but I think you are going to have trouble keeping the floor from scuffing. |
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I would love to see an overhead screen, which would be easy to do and easier to see. (I used to ride in an elevator that was missing a cover over a vent. If I stood in just the right place and looked up, I could see the skylight at the top of the shaft. I loved that.) |
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I recall riding in a glass outside elevator as a small child. El Cortez Hotel in San Diego, I think it was. |
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A supprise unmarked basement floor or 2 could add to the fun. Perhaps with images of crashing through rock, some shaking and then the lights being cut. |
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Can I have a Star wars Death Star vent version? |
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//Nice, but I think you are going to have trouble
keeping the floor from scuffing. // |
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Not really. The aim is to give the impression of being
in a glass-floored list, so an scuffing or dirt on the
glass floor above the screens wouldn't spoil the
illusion. |
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/Except that when the lift goes up, the imagery
shows it going down./ |
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That is a fine idea for a ride! Myself I like a little
screen with text news for my elevator ride. But
the perception of motion is based on 2 things:
what the ear tells you and what the eye tells you.
Would it be possible to simulate going super fast
on a ride by going pretty fast but then showing
things flying by super fast and blowing wind in the
face? |
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I am not sure what would happen if ear and eye
gave contractidtory info. Dizziness is one
example of that. I wonder what the elevator
experiment would produce? |
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//when the lift goes up, the imagery shows it going
down// |
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That would be interesting. |
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At work (OK, OK, at my former workplace) the lifts
have glass walls and a mirror-finish ceiling. If you
look up at the ceiling at the reflection of the side-
view, you can convince yourself that you're going up
when you're actually going down, and vice versa. If
you do that, you get a weird feeling when the lift
starts or stops. |
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This is brilliant! Miss ya Max. |
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See idea illustration. (link) |
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