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Zen rock gardens. Permanently impermanent, fluidly static. [link]
Ya gotta love'm.
Okay maybe you don't, but I do, and I would like to make a Zen rock garden entirely from pieces of magnetite, [link], above a tightly packed grid of programmable electromagnetic coils.
By controlling
the current, polarity and power of each coil the swirling ridges and troughs could be manipulated at will allowing for a different look to the garden each time you glance at it.
What I would really like to see though is moving and shifting patterns in the stones. Like ripples from the center of the garden spreading outwards to converge back on themselves or undulating serpents perpetually devouring their own tails or...well there really is no end to the designs which could be created.
Or is there?
http://www.mchenry....pages/Magnetite.htm
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Dec 13 2006]
[link]
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2 Words that go well- Programmable and Zen.... |
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Hmm, they might just all clump at that.
Playing around with it in my head it seemed that by changing the strength of the magnetic fields, the clumps would follow the paths of greatest attraction, or begin climbing themselves in a cone shape wherever an individual coils' field protruded the farthest. |
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Iron ball bearings maybe? |
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Ball bearings would be incredibly loud. |
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"Hey, wanna see something cool? Watch the rock garden."
[click]
GDDDDD SHHHHSDDDH HHHHHSDH HHHHHHH
"ISN'T IT GREAT?"
GDSHHHHH
"WHAT?" |
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I wonder what a mercury rock garden would look like... |
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