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Water Window
Adaptive window that refracts incident light producing the effect of water ripples |
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A window that can flex across its surface, thereby refracting incoming light to produce the effect of water ripple patterns within a room.
Potential implementation:
A flexible plastic material as the main window surface, containing a matrix of expansion chambers, connected to the window casing
by narrow channels. Each channel would be connected to a piston that could be moved to alter the air pressure within the respective expansion chamber. By coordinating the movement of all the pistons a specific pattern of window deformation could be produced, and with a sufficiently fine grid of chambers the desired ripple pattern (or any other pattern) could be produced.
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if you can do it, I'll buy one. |
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Those projected patterns from rippling water are called caustics. I mean, if anyone cares, that is. |
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