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What would be fun is to look at one of those micromirror projector ICs with a magnifying glass, watching it flutter with color close up |
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It seems to me that the camera needs to do some kind of
spatial Fourier transform of the brightness along each
horizontal line of the image, to generate the signal that gets
played into that line's Rubens tube. Fortunately, I believe it's
somewhat practical to do Fourier transforms without
electricity. I don't know how the standing wave requirement
affects that, though. |
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A liquid surface can play a multitude of wave forms initiated by mechanical flippers at the pools edge. Conversion of the molecules between liquid and gas states must be proportion to the positional wave form and could drive fueling of tubes. Yes ? or rubbish. |
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Or even just pressure flammable gas through jets. |
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You could forgo the tubes in that case, maybe, if the gas can
just be combusted above the liquid surface. It reminds me
of a thought I had the other week, too: can a Chladni plate
display arbitrary images if fed with Fourier-transformed
signals? |
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I am guessing the particles would have to be a uniform, known constant, to calculate transitional patterns. A Chladni pattern is formed on a set frequency and a picture would be a manipulation of the transitional change to and from those set frequencies. There would be a spatial computation to know where around the edge of the plate to inject the next partial frequency if just adding frequencies one after another. If trying to do all the additive frequencies at once, I don't image there being enough room on the edge. |
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