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.
-- sophocles, Mar 27 2014

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.
-- skoomphemph, Mar 27 2014


skoom: great addition! Yes, the same hardware could be hunting you or dynamically printing while you ski/snowboard
-- sophocles, Mar 27 2014


err... this is how they do it on the slopes, except the snow is placed parabolically rather than dropping vertically.
-- FlyingToaster, Mar 27 2014


@FT: True, but not really at all. Having true 3D control & color is far beyond current methods employed.
-- sophocles, Mar 27 2014


Sounds like something they'd do in Dubai.
-- RayfordSteele, Mar 28 2014


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.

Possibly substituting another material for snow as that's tricky at room temperature, a material slightly denser than the liquid in there..

<sound of footsteps, hurriedly exiting the scene of the crime..>
-- not_morrison_rm, Mar 29 2014



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