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You park your car in a busy pedestrian area with you inside it,
lock the doors and activate your carsequencer. To the outside
world it appears as though the whole car is inexplicably filling
up with water as you sit there calmly looking out, but it's a
total illusion because all of the windows
have been replaced
by double glazed units, allowing the gaps to be slowly filled
with water. With the water continuing to rise to the roof,
extra valves spring open allowing more water to gush out unto
the street, attracting an even bigger crowd. At this point you
start your engine and drive away, water gushing out both
sides of the car, leaving a startled and puzzled audience in
your wake.
Novelty Wine Glasses
http://www.goantiqu...5538&source=VYZ4474
Same principle. [DrCurry, Dec 06 2005]
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Ha! Can I have gold fish in mine? |
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Should rename "Drowning Man Pedestrian Attractor" |
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carsequencer makes no sense. |
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it's in a car: its a sequence: and it has consequences ergo
it's a carsequence - but if I think of a btter name I will
change it. May modify anyway as I have had more thoughts
in this direction overnight. Desert Fox - I appreciate the
"Drowning man.... " and I may change it to that, but it's
too obvious for me today. |
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This might work with cyclops pedestrians who aren't moving. Otherwise, any normal bi-optical or moving cyclops could see that the water-line on the glass was not matching any line on your body. |
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Moving up and down a little bit, they'd see the line move up & down on everything in the interior, and quickly see it for what it is. |
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So, interesting, but just won't work.[-] |
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Isn't that the nature of Halfbaked ideas, [sophocles]? |
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I can't bring myself to bone this, it's too funny to imagine. |
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sophocles: I don't think you're right - look at those joke wineglasses - they're pretty convincing even though they use the same principle. Besides, realism is not really the point. |
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Ah, I don't want to be too sour, so I'll remove my fishbone. It is just the HB afterall. Once the idea is no longer seen as practical though, it's all very subjective. The wine glasses work better b/c it's a short distance with no other objects inside. Try it with a car and I still think it'd fall flat IRL. |
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I tend to agree with sophocles - but if the car sat high
enough up - ie a dreaded SUV - the visual clues derived
from parallax would be reduced. Helpful suggestions from
my learned friends to make this idea work better
gratefully welcomed. Thanks |
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