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Writing with waves

February 6th, 2007 by herinde

AMOEBA 

I recently stumbled upon this amazing piece of technology, AMOEBA, which seems to be able to generate lines and shapes on a surface of water. “The wave generators move up and down in controlled motions to simultaneously produce a number of cylindrical waves that act as pixels.”

I want one.

Someone suggested a reference to the water creatures in James Cameron’s movie The Abyss (you know, the snake-like things, which imitate the main character’s facial expressions).

7 Responses to “Writing with waves”

  1. on 06 Feb 2007 at 1:31 pm   levende

    When you get one, can I stand in line to see, please? It’s a real beauty.

    Just imagine waves as a tactile yet momentary morse alphabet across the oceans, from continent to continent, not bringing death with it, but knowledge, wealth, love. Ah!

    *wants to send a trans-atlantic wav-o-gram*

  2. on 06 Feb 2007 at 1:40 pm   Bengt Skarstam

    Is´nt a wave description just our incomplete way to describe reality due to our lack of “knowledge” (or our knowledge is transformed in this incomplete way?).
    See this web page –>
    http://www.psitek.net/pages/PsiTekPMI2.html

  3. on 06 Feb 2007 at 4:36 pm   nadja

    @ Herinde - oh wauw. A wavy typewriter… imagine writing, programming and discussing SHARE A BRAINWAVE using that one…

    @ Bengt Skarstam: That’s an interesting and relevant point…but there’s always the question whether it’s desireable to aim for the ‘complete descriptions’ :-)

  4. on 06 Feb 2007 at 4:54 pm   herinde

    I’d really like to see it used to create images more than letters or words. And bigger! Imagine a giant face rising from a pool…

  5. on 06 Feb 2007 at 5:03 pm   Nadja

    @ Herinde: That would be somewhat scary - and very cool :-)

  6. on 06 Feb 2007 at 8:20 pm   levende

    A giant face rising from a pool…
    The scariest would be to get a glimpse of a wave reproduction of the cyclops Polyphemos of The Odyssey.

  7. on 06 Feb 2007 at 8:27 pm   herinde

    That is exactly what they should do :-D

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