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Women (and some men) have an irrational love of very high
refractive indices, with values well above 2 (particularly in
the
visible wavelengths) being particularly sought after.
Unfortunately, one of the materials with the highest
refractive
index, across the visible range, is diamond.
Even though
synthetic diamonds are now available in quite large sizes,
they
are still fairly expensive.
Closer investigation, though, reveals that diamond-lovers
are
often unaware of refractive indices, and instead use words
like
"sparkle", "fire" and "flash". All they are really interested in
is
having an object that can bounce, refract and split light so
as
to produce multiple flashes of different colours.
MaxCo. is therefore developing LEDiamonds for the cost-
conscious sparklophile. Each lovingly mass-produced
LEDiamond is hewn from the finest borosilicate glass, and
has
a dense array of tri-colour LEDs bonded to each of its
surfaces,
except the front one. A tiny light sensor is also bonded to
the
back surface. The LEDiamond, in turn, interfaces with a
genuine gold-effect ring that houses a small battery, a
wireless
charging coil, an accelerometer and some integrated
circuitry.
As you move your hand to show off your LEDiamond, the
light
sensor detects the ambient light. The accelerometer, in
response to your hand movement, triggers a series of bright,
transient flashes, in colours that are a subset of the
incoming
light. The light sensor can also be deactivated, so that your
LEDiamond can sparkle brilliantly in even the dimmest room.
So far, we have only managed to produce LEDiamonds down
to
a size of around 10 carats. We hope to be able to get things
down to 5 or even 2 carats, though these will of course be
much more expensive.
floating parabolic mirror illusion causes 3d things to appear to float above it
https://www.google....ish+mirror+illusion [beanangel, Jan 27 2019]
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Pretentious idiocy will beat practicality ten out of ten times, but here's a small loaf for trying. |
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[mb] You might find a number of halfbaked minds that think
alike on this idea. |
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You could fancy it up even more if you put a floating
parabolic dish illusion [link] at the glass so the "fire" appears
to levitate above the ring. |
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Apparently cubic zirconia gems have more 'fire' than
diamonds, and there are processes used to nerf it back.
Seemed to me like they'd kind of missed the point. |
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Maybe you could have a few settings: |
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Fake (or as described by marketing - "Like a diamond")
Chav (about twice as sparkly, still somewhat realistic.
A.k.a.
"ultimate bling")
Full-on, constant glittering ("Princess sparkle pixiedust") |
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// Women (and some men) have an irrational love of very high refractive indices, with values well above 2 (particularly in the visible wavelengths) being particularly sought after. // |
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Having correctly stated the issue (irrationality), the proposed solution fails to address the actual problem. |
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That problem is not "sparkle", "fire", "glitter", shortage of supply, difficulty of synthesis, or anything so related. What is required is a better (much better, although even a slight improvement would be beneficial) version of the human female, which exhibits an alarming tendency to malfunction in a number of unpredictable and catastrophic ways. |
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If this were done, not only would the "sparkly things" problem be solved, but many others too. |
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It astonishes us how your species has survived as long as it has. Then again, won't be for much longer ... |
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grr, I had essentially the same idea over Christmas but was
too busy deciding between booze varieties to write it up.
Anyhow, I thought mounting the LED behind the stone was
the way to go, in a sort of pyramidal shape to fire at all the
relevant internal faces. It might be sensible to go with
phosphorus coating as RGB LEDs might lead to
embarrassingly notchy spectra should it be expanded over
some white paper or something. |
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I presume you mean a phosphor coating. Phosphorus is not a
phosphor, AFAIK. |
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//RGB LEDs might lead to embarrassingly notchy spectra//
That is a good point. Howevertheless, room lights these days
tend to be either fluorescents or LEDs, and both are a bit
notchy (at least, according to my CD-spectroscope*), so you
might get away with it as long as you don't go outside. |
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(*I.E., a spectroscope made by looking at the reflections in an
old CD; not a circular dichroism spectroscope.) |
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//broadcast the bonded swiss bank acccount// Actually,
[bigs], you might have actually had an actual idea. If there
were some way to display your total net worth in simple
digits, but with no possibility of fibbing, it might become the
next fashion accessory. |
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*I.E., a spectroscope made by looking at the reflections in
an old CD; not a circular dichroism spectroscope. // |
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Reminds me of trying use Google to find instructions to build
a compact disc spectroscope, years ago
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//It astonishes us how your species has survived as long as it
has// |
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Me too. We've been around for between 300,000 and 800,000
years. The Borg have been around since 1989, which makes
them...Hey! Happy 30th birthday! |
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Your species has only been aware of us for that long ... we have been watching you for a lot longer. |
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Still, a card would have been nice. |
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Isn't Borg just the abbreviated name for
Borgasuarus, a loathsome type of dinosaur that
somehow survived the great extinction and
eventually evolved into a strain of turnip eating
maggot? |
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Wait. You're saying the Borg are Belgians? That explains all
the waffle. |
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The nearest we've ever got to Assimilating a Belgian was Jean-Luc Picard, who claimed to be french. That was more than enough, thankyou ... |
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//condescension squared// Damn. I was going for cubed. I
knew I should have used more 'actually's. |
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//the Borg are Belgians// |
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No, but "Borg" is the most common surname on Malta. |
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Waffling on again about the Gecko's Foot book,
couldn't you do something like the Peacock feather
shimmer? |
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