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Glass beads strung together > motion used to generate electricity > night-time glinty mermaid, Nice. |
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I like this illusion.
If the shape were made from clear water filled bladders then the surface visual could be changed at will hydraulically. |
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I like this beanie, and I'll even clean up the puke. |
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<dons elbow-length rubber gloves to help..tch..I memoed Jutta about this cheap carpet, make it nylon I said, but no one listens> |
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Anyway, plugging clear glass mermaid into google gets you lots of pics of Starbucks glass mugs...it all means something.. |
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I think this would be better as a piece of ninja-art, made by rearranging pebbles in the stream-bed to produce the necessary features on the surface. |
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It would be fiendishly difficult, because the water surface will not simply mimic the topography of the pebbles - each pebble will cause swirls and dips at (and I do mean "at") the surface. For the same reason, a simple mermaid shape would actually not produce a mermaid-shaped surface. Some advanced software would be needed to deduce the underwater pattern necessary to produce a given shape at the surface. |
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The fact that the shape of the stream bed doesn't match
the shape of the resulting water sculpture is the thing
that makes this especially interesting. |
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Sure you could try to design this using computer
simulation, but I think the end results might not be
satisfactory. I doubt all shapes are even possible, and
when the computer fails to make the desired shape, the
actual result might not be that great. What you'd really
want is a skilled artist experimenting with a waterproof
putty to create a sculpture that is visually pleasing. Once
designed, it could be cast in glass or other durable
medium. |
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This could be in a fountain with the flow regulated to
optimize the shape, but if this could be placed in a
stream or drainage ditch in which the water level
changes over time, sometimes the water sculpture would
be there and other times it wouldn't be. For bonus
points, if multiple sculptures were placed close to each
other, different ones could be active for different flow
rates. |
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If one had a stream bed comprised of small rectangular prisms one end that one could raise and lower, it would be easier to change the topography of the stream bed, looking for the one that made the mermaid. |
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In fact this would be a very cool science museum exhibit with a recirculating stream and a stream bed that visitors could manipulate. |
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From OED: comprised.
b. To constitute, make up, compose. |
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1969 W. Hooper in C. S. Lewis Sel. Lit. Ess. p. xix, These essays together with those contained in this volume comprise the total of C. S. Lewis's essays on literature. |
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1969 N. Perrin Dr. Bowdler's Legacy (1970) i. 20 As to who comprised this new reading public, Jeffrey..guessed in 1812 that there were 20,000 upper-class readers in Great Britain. |
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c. pass. To be composed of, to consist of. |
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1970 Nature 27 June 1206/2 Internally, the chloroplast is comprised of a system of flattened membrane sacs. |
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Would "compose" also work in this circumstance? Yes. But "comprise" does not get out as much lately, and I like to give it a chance. |
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"Comprise" = "contain" (easy to remember - a PRISoner is contained in a PRISon). |
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"Compose" = "make up" (easy to remember - a composer makes things up). |
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An orange comprises several segments.
An orange contains several segments.
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Several segments compose an orange.
Several segments make up an orange.
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You can also flip the word order with "compose/make up":
"An orange is composed of several segments.
"An orange is made up of several segments. |
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The example quoted from Nature (//Internally, the chloroplast is comprised of a system of flattened membrane sacs.//) is simply wrong. The chloroplast either comprises a system of..., or is composed of a system of... |
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It's a bit too flowery naff for me. |
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Future technology, murmuring the waves, of what ever medium/field, to produce 'magic'. Beautiful, artistic and definitely scientific. |
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//being up your own arse.//.... better than being up your
arse which probably doubles as a storage centre for the
Mexican cleaners Donald Trump likes to keep hidden from
public view. Ha |
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