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Water pours out of a spout in the ceiling, falling down until it hits a jet of air coming out of the floor, where it splatters outwards a few feet from the ground. A ring of more powerful air jets surrounds this, which bend the path of the droplets and send them back up to the ceiling. At the top, a
corresponding ring of vacuum nozzles collects the droplets and feeds them back to the main reservoir.
Coming soon, in the same series:
- Sideways Fountain, which uses far heavier use of air jets to suggest that everything else is the sideways party;
- Gallium Fountain, which freezes solid on cloudy days;
- Slow-Motion fountain, which spews lightweight oil within a room filled with Sulphur Hexafluoride;
- Stopped Fountain, made of solid glass;
- Fast-Motion Fountain, which runs in a centrifuge;
- Fast-Forward Fountain, which skips straight to the final stage in the life-cycle of all fountains -- a crumbling lump of concrete with no water.
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With enough air jets and processing power one might be able to organise a rotating fountain to combine all these ideas. |
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Well, maybe soggy is a better word. |
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Cast your bread upon the waters, and it will get soggy. |
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- Suspended fountain, powerful sheets of jetted air keep a volume of water perpetually spinning and travelling through mid-air as though spilling down an invisible water-slide. |
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Just spurt the water downwards into a denser fluid, such as mercury. |
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Can air be laminar flowed like water or light? I imagine that it doesn't have the stickiness over short distances so a ring of jets would have some complex air patterns. |
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Marcel duchamp’s new fountain can now be a shower
instead of a urinal |
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There's a fountain in the Miro museum in Barcelona in
which liquid falls across several metal plates,
splashing and trickling from one to another. It's
only after a second or two of watching it that you
realise the liquid is mercury - very weird. |
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