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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 07/26/2006 : 16:46:11
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Cool stuff! A Japanese company has developed a working device which can make a letter of the alphabet stand up eerily on the surface of water. The letters are formed from standing wave "pixels," according to this LiveScience article:
Japanese scientists used wave generators
in a circular tank to draw this letter on
water. Credit: FujiSankei Business
quote:
A New Wave: Scientists Write on Water
By Bill Christensen
posted: 26 July 2006
11:41 am ET
A new technology allows researchers to write on water.
The AMOEBA (Advanced Multiple Organized Experimental Basin), a circular tank created by Mitsui Engineering at their Akishima laboratory, is able form letters with standing waves.
This remarkable display device consists of fifty water-wave generators surrounding a cylindrical tank 5 feet wide and a foot deep. The wave generators move vertically to produce cylindrical waves. These "pixels" are about 4 inches in diameter and 1.5 inches in height; these form lines and shapes.
The AMOEBA device can form all of the roman alphabet, as well as some kanji characters.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 07/26/2006 19:29:54
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 07/26/2006 : 17:42:12 [Permalink]
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Whoa, that's pretty cool.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie |
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 07/26/2006 : 19:13:37 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Cool stuff! A Japanese company has developed a working device which can make letter of the alphabet stand up eerily on the surface of water.
I see advertising possibilities in lakes, streams, bathtubs, not to mention all the oceans.
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 07/26/2006 : 20:08:47 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Chippewa
I see advertising possibilities in lakes, streams, bathtubs, not to mention all the oceans.
"And in a tragic story tonight, a tsunami hit southern Florida today resulting in billions of dollars in damage and hundreds of lost lives. Eye-witnesses claim that the phrase 'Do The Dew' scrawled across the wave before it struck."
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie |
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