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Rain Door
Adorn your doorway with a water drop, bead curtain. | |
Instead of beads on a string, fill your doorway with lines of water drops falling from the door lintel. The water is collected in the doorsill grate and pumped back up a doorjamb.
Passage can be accomplished automatically, by breaking a beam, or by pressing a button; the pump stops, clearing the
doorway. Colored lighting above and from the side gives an added dimension, so that the sparkling, spattering curtain resembles a waterfall at sunset.
Rainfall fountain spelling
http://www.auto.com...osee11_20010111.htm
I saw this one at the Detroit Auto show. Unfortunately, no pics. [RayfordSteele, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
YouTube video of that raindrop display.
http://www.youtube....watch?v=Z2LUz2WVcek
[jutta, Apr 10 2007]
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Use strobe lights to "freeze" the strands of water and make them look like beads, kind'a sort'a. Kind'a. |
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//Instead of beads on a string, fill your doorway with lines of water drops falling from the door lintel. // |
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Baked in my house...at least it was until last week when I had the faulty hot water cylinder replaced upstairs. |
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Croissant because waterfalls and sunsets are pretty and it was a sunny day today and I'm in a good mood. |
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An urban noise dampening, air-circulating, decorative Wonderwall, with possibly baptismal applications, which even the Ch'i Kung crowd would love. I cannot see how, if you had this in your batchelor pad and brought a ladyfriend back, you could possibly fail. Sulphuric acid mode at night. You've outdone yourself, Farmer [+]. |
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Can it spell out my phone messages? |
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If I understand this correctly, I've seen the effect in some fancy hotel lobbies. |
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RayfordSteele: I would think that with a precisely metered drip and bristolz's strobe lights, one could display text in the doorway. |
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I've seen video of a computer controlled drip machine which does in fact produce scrolling text from precisely timed drops of water. This was about 8-10 years ago. The inventor was the nephew (I think) of my neighbor across the street. The machine in the video used a square array of nozzles (about 100 of them, as I recall) to drip 3 dimensional designs and block letters from a height of about 20 feet. The solenoid valves rapidly opening and closing made the machine annoyingly loud. |
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BigBrother, that is fantastic. Do you think you could find a link? |
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FarmerJohn: How about using it for a 3d display? |
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re 3-d sculpture, I've seen some lamps which had oil drops running down monofilament nylon, I think that could be adapted to create 3-d liquid sculptures |
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Fantastic !! Well worth a croissant. What about running the strobe out sequence so the rain drips upwards ? |
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Actually, from what I saw of the Jeep display, (see link) no strobe is needed, if the doorway is relatively tall enough. |
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I'm going to get started right away! (making it) |
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