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A snowmaking head descends the mountain like a giant dot-
matrix printer head, "printing" (more snow here, less there)
any 3D terrain desired. (With RGB colors added like
"snowcones")
All weekend, novelty seekers enjoy the new, unreal terrain,
& your competitors die while you bask in profits.
And, you'd get to run A/B tests, seeing which type of
terrains
get the most traffic, & make more of those.
And, you can crowdsource designs for part/all of the
mountain to drive social engagement, sponsorships, or
special events.
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And when its work was done it could play, hiding itself wherever it could find cover, and setting itself up as a kind of machine gun nest. Skiers would get a great laugh out of being mowed down just as they prepared to pass through some tricky moguls. |
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skoom: great addition! Yes, the same hardware
could be hunting you or dynamically printing while
you ski/snowboard |
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err... this is how they do it on the slopes, except the snow is placed parabolically rather than dropping vertically. |
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@FT: True, but not really at all. Having true 3D
control & color is far beyond current methods
employed. |
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Sounds like something they'd do in Dubai. |
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Now, if only you could get this to work on a much smaller scale, in for example, just off the top of my head, a small spherical container. |
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Possibly substituting another material for snow as that's tricky at room temperature, a material slightly denser than the liquid in there.. |
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<sound of footsteps, hurriedly exiting the scene of the crime..> |
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