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Sounds like an expensive solution, but you've identified a problem I've had many times in the past. |
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I have seen in a few hospitals a system of colored tags that hang from the ceiling to indicate where a specific room might be. |
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Definitely expensive but cooler than ceiling lights. I just love the idea of the "follow the laser" schpeal that the receptionist would have to state. |
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Would it make more sense to have the laser along the wall? At eye level perhaps? It would be easier to follow. |
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You'd have to have the corridors filled with smoke for the laser shaft to be visible. Bun if this is the case. (Or, I suppose, you could have one of those spinning laser emitters that projects a line on the ceiling, but I'm not sure how they'd cope with being reflected around corners.) |
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<Probably hardly related>I've often wondered about periscopic mirror assemblies in an office building to serve as a video message system.</phr> |
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sibyll, if the laser was hitting the walls, it could be blocked by people walking by (or hit them in the eye). I liked the follow the beam idea, and up by the ceiling there would be little blocking the way. |
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Wouldn't arrays of neon light tubes be a little less problematic? I'm sure OSHA would have a hard time accepting smoke-filled hallways in the workplace. |
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What about steam or fog? This would go great with the Filing Cabinet of Terror, and be more OSHA-friendly. |
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Or have little mouse droids, like the ones in Star Wars that the stormtroopers in the Death Star were following. |
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Asimov did this one as an airport navigation system upon arrival on Trantor. |
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Excellent. Lasers can be had for a few bucks. Needed for airport terminals too. The 'designers' have abstracted those direction signals so much that you can't tell if you should go straight up or straight down the hall, then, when the hallway splits in two and they don't want to erect a direction panel because that wouldn't fit in with their design scheme, why they just drop you. |
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