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This idea occurred to me as I was
observing the mesmerising
and most excellent visual effects that I
often watch whilst
listening to music using iTunes on my
laptop. I was trying to
think if there would be a way of creating
a corresponding
physical equivalent to the ever changing
digital
patterns,
colours and movements.
The Bird Men of Alka-selzer is the name
for a set of
effervescent tablets that have been
engineered in such a
way
as to harness the release of the bubble
stream to control
their movements as they dissolve. Each
tablet in a set
would
swirl around, changing direction, colour,
velocity and depth
in
a predetermined manner. Simply line up
twenty tall glasses
of
water, drop a tablet into each one, pop
on the
accompanying
cd then sit back and watch while the
tablets perform a
synchronised dance as they slowly
dissolve in co-ordinated
harmony with the music
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Perhaps the release would be controlled by different thicknesses of soluble lacquers. [+] |
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Fishbone until there is some hint as to how this might be accomplished. And maybe after that for thinking that such a thing would be entertaining. |
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I thought that this was going to be related to the (urban myth?) of feeding birds Alka-Selzer in order to make them explode. This is good too. Have a bun. |
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I'm not a chemist or physicist, but I recall the effects of
water on sodium and calcium. I'm sure that a smart
engineer, with some imagination could construct a
multilayered tablet, that would expose a series of
effervescent particles in a predictable way - Shees guys- I
was sweating for a bit there.... (baconbrain) - the tablets
will be sculpted to resemble you, and renamed "The Bird
Brain of Alka-Selzer" as pay back for that fishbone :-) |
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