Public: Weather Forecast
Flip-book Weathervane   (+10)  [vote for, against]
a moving cartoon atop your building on windy days

When I was a kid we used to create cartoons in our textbooks by hand- you sort of flip the edge of the pages and watch the animation. A weathervane could be made with a large number of flaps (like a big rolodex) that have an amusing cartoon on them. Depending on the direction of the wind, the cartoon would go backwards or forwards. Probably wouldn't be so funny in a hurricane-too blurry.
-- Rm Brz, Apr 02 2006

Cup Anemometer http://www.arm.ac.u...rep2000/node13.html
I suspect that this idea would work better with an anemometer than a plain old weathervane. [jurist, Apr 03 2006]

Pretty cool idea, actually.

How would you return frames to the front?
-- zack112358, Apr 02 2006


There's no return- because of the rotational nature of the device, there would be just a repeating motion. Maybe big lips kissing over and over or a guy getting hit on the head. There could be advertising applications as well. Another cool thing is that the cartoon is visible from all sides of the building.
-- Rm Brz, Apr 02 2006


+1
-- po, Apr 02 2006


Thank you, Jurist- I was actually looking for that very word.
-- Rm Brz, Apr 03 2006


I like the lowtech aspect of this. You would need a pinwheel with a single cog that came around to flip up the next page.
-- bungston, Apr 03 2006


Perhaps best with an animation of a cock rising in the morning.
-- ConsulFlaminicus, Apr 03 2006


+ Churnage.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Apr 20 2006


I've been to Vegas where prostitution is legal...the idea for a repetitious advertising cartoon for a brothel is disturbing, to say the least.
-- P-p-polly, Jun 04 2006


I saw a show once where these clay figures spun on the spokes of a horizontal wheel. A strobe light made the clay shape in front of you apparently change shape. Very cool stuff. Anyway, lightning may have the same effect. BUN!
-- daseva, Jul 27 2006



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