{"id":4134,"date":"2011-09-06T12:21:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=4134"},"modified":"2011-09-12T10:05:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T15:05:44","slug":"water-and-lighting-make-shocking-3d-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/water-and-lighting-make-shocking-3d-possibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Water And Lighting Make Shocking 3D Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"
Give me a room full of automated lights and a console, and I’m happy as a clam, which is appropriate considering one piece of entertainment technology that’s sparked my interest as of late. What could that be, you ask? Water screens. Something about the addition of a water screen to an architectural install or a room full of gorgeous lighting makes me tingle more than I already would be. I\u2019ve had enough experience with them to tell you that there\u2019s something about water screens that makes the event in which they’re installed seem posh, beautiful, and expensive.<\/p>\n
Prina Water Screens<\/a> is a guilty pleasure of mine. Their site is full of gorgeous photos of their screens at a variety of events and installs, and honestly, when properly used, it\u2019s near impossible to make their water screens look bad. I attended Lighting Dimensions International<\/a> recently and had the opportunity to stand next to a Prina Water Screen during the demo. While it can\u2019t replace the crystal clear image you get on a standard projector screen, it does add ambiance, beauty, and depth. Truthfully, there\u2019s no good way to have an entire screen worth of droplets to fall so that you get the entire projected image. Water falls, spaces are made, and you lose some of your image. It\u2019s the nature of the beast. It\u2019s not something you would want to watch a movie on or use to give a power point presentation. It\u2019s also much harder to see in a room with the lights on than the image seen on a normal screen. Despite all that, however, it\u2019s not something you should write off. Water screens have their time and place, and they can be effective and stunning when properly used. Were I rich, I\u2019d have a couple hanging around looking good for the hell of it.<\/p>\n How do these tingle-creating water screens work? The screen is created when thousands of droplets line up next to one another as they fall to the ground from a pipe to a trough mounted on the floor. You have gaps in your image is because you can\u2019t just have a flawless sheet of perfect clear water. If that were the case, there would be nothing for the image from the projector to reflect off of. The light would go through the sheet of water and reflect on whatever was behind it. The droplets of water create more surface area and texture for the image and the light to reflect off of, allowing you to see the image.<\/p>\n I\u2019m also a big fan of large-scale water screen, water curtain, and water effects created by Aquatic Show<\/a>.\u00a0 For large scale screens, a series of pumps and fountains is installed in existing or man-made bodies of water. Installing a water screen in a body of water allows the screen to be enormous, as there is no water loss to consider because any water used simply falls back into the lake from which it came. Projects that use screens or effects of this size are Disney, Sea World, and The Bellagio in Las Vegas. These large-scale water screens and effects make for amazing shows, especially when you add light and video.<\/p>\n [yframe url=’http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hk_UoWTPxHQ’]<\/p>\n