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Manhattan Pool

Diving board vertigo/skydiving experience
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Needed: an in-ground swimming pool with a diving board and a nighttime pool party.

Construct a convincing aerial nighttime view of Manhattan from the diver’s viewpoint. It should be from helicopter range. This could be done with mosaic tile inlays, LED lighting, underwater screens, etc and accented with the landscape lighting.

The intent is for it to appear that the pool is a hole in the ground hovering over Manhattan.

scootie, Dec 26 2008

[django]'s scary bird idea Horrible_20Hitchcock_20Swimming_20Pool
[pertinax, Dec 26 2008]

Like this? http://www.neatoram...e-a-submerged-city/
Baked! knew I'd already seen this - took me a while to find the image [xenzag, Dec 27 2008, last modified Dec 29 2008]


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       Huh?
UnaBubba, Dec 26 2008
  

       I think it's a form of decoration for a conventional swimming pool... a bit like [django]'s scary bird idea, but more feel-good. [+]
pertinax, Dec 26 2008
  

       Yeah, but is it on the wall/s or on the floor of the pool? The poster has left the description a little sparse.
UnaBubba, Dec 26 2008
  

       How d'you have a pool that *appears* to be a hole in the ground, and at the same time *appears* to be hovering over Manhattan?
up_on_cloud_nine, Dec 27 2008
  

       Darn, I liked the title.
blissmiss, Dec 27 2008
  

       [xenzag] Yes. thanks for the link. Very cool. I was thinking that but maybe with some lighting that [at night] could be controlled to give the illusion of traffic below or some activity, maybe the perspectiv is such that the tip of a spire actually comes up from the [shallow] end. That and a couple of mojitos, and you got vertigo.
scootie, Dec 27 2008
  

       Once a couple of mojitos was all I had, and I still got vertigo.
ye_river_xiv, Dec 29 2008
  


 

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