Luminous Water Wall Display with Mesh Light Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current water and lighting displays lack innovative techniques for interacting light with water to create dynamic visual effects, particularly for large installations like building walls, and fail to provide immersive experiences that can extend over multiple floors.
Innovation Solution
A display system featuring a mesh or translucent water wall with a lighting array of LEDs that can be controlled to alter light refraction and focus as water flows, combined with a water delivery and recovery system, allowing for variable lighting effects and integration with music and marketing messages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If water is used to focus or alter light passing through it, then visual effects are enhanced, but the complexity of the display system increases
Solution Approach 1:
A mesh or screen is introduced as an intermediary component between the light source and water flow. The mesh provides structural support for the water while allowing light to pass through, enabling the water to act as an optical medium without requiring a fully enclosed complex structure. This intermediary element simplifies the overall system design while maintaining the light-altering visual effects.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses hydraulic principles to control water flow over the mesh surface. By regulating water pressure and flow rate, the display can dynamically adjust the optical properties of the water layer, creating varying visual effects without mechanical moving parts. This hydraulic control mechanism achieves complex visual outcomes with relatively simple control systems.
2Illumination intensity
If a water wall is positioned in front of a lighting array, then light refraction and focusing effects are achieved, but the structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mesh or screen used to support the water wall acts as a thin film structure that is both structurally functional and optically transparent. This thin film approach allows light to pass through while providing enough support for water flow, avoiding the need for bulky rigid structures. The mesh design enables light refraction and focusing effects through the water layer without adding excessive structural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The mesh structure is inherently porous, allowing light to pass through its openings while providing a surface for water to flow over. This porous design enables the dual function of structural support and optical transparency, achieving light refraction effects without requiring solid opaque structures that would block the light paths.
3Area of stationary object
If the display is designed to cover a wall extending several floors, then the visual impact and branding value increase, but the scale and complexity of installation increase
Solution Approach 1:
The large-scale display is divided into multiple modular sections or panels that can be independently installed and configured. Each module contains its own lighting array, mesh structure, and water delivery system, allowing for incremental installation across multiple floors. This segmentation reduces the complexity of handling and installing the entire display as a single large structure, while still achieving the desired large-area visual impact when all modules are assembled together.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system creates dramatic, dynamic visual effects by altering light as it passes through the water, providing moving art-like experiences that can be tailored for various installations, including large building walls, and enhances branding and attraction value.
Implementation Method 1
The water may alter the appearance of the lighting as it travels through the water wall thereby providing dramatic visual effects
Data Source
AI summary
A water display is described having a lighting array emanating light that travels through a wall. Water flows down the wall to vary the appearance of the light that shines through the wall. The flow of water and particular lights being turned on and off may be controlled. Dramatic visual effects are provided including the appearance of moving art.