Water Slide Gradient Segmentation for Acceleration Illusion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing water slides fail to provide a unique and safe sliding experience that utilizes acceleration forces to create hallucinations for users, lacking innovative designs that surprise and engage riders effectively.
Innovation Solution
A water slide design featuring a tube slide section and an action slide section with distinct gradients, where the action slide section has a steeper gradient than the tube slide section, creating an unexpected change in direction and acceleration, enhanced by visual and lighting effects to deceive the user into thinking the slide continues straight before suddenly changing direction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the water slide uses a uniform gradient throughout, then the sliding experience is predictable and safe, but it lacks excitement and unexpected acceleration
Solution Approach 1:
The water slide is divided into multiple sections with different gradient characteristics: a first section with a first gradient, a second section with a second gradient, and a third section with a third gradient. This segmentation allows each section to provide a different sliding experience, combining safety in the first section with excitement in the second section, and resolution in the third section.
Solution Approach 2:
Different sections of the water slide are given different local qualities through varying gradients. The first section has a gentler gradient for safety, the second section has a steeper gradient for excitement, and the third section has a moderate gradient for resolution. This local differentiation creates the desired unexpected acceleration while maintaining overall safety.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the water slide creates unexpected acceleration through gradient changes, then user engagement and excitement increase, but it may cause discomfort or safety concerns
Solution Approach 1:
The water slide prepares users for the unexpected acceleration by first establishing a predictable, safe gradient in the first section. This preliminary action allows users to acclimate and reduces surprise discomfort when the steeper second section follows, as users have already experienced controlled sliding conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The gradient parameter is changed progressively through different sections rather than abruptly. The transition from the first gradient to the second gradient and then to the third gradient creates a controlled parameter change that generates excitement while minimizing discomfort through gradual adaptation.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the water slide uses visual effects to create illusion of continued straight path, then the surprise effect is enhanced, but the complexity of the slide design increases
Solution Approach 1:
The water slide creates a visual copy or illusion of the tube slide section's continuation in the action slide section. By mimicking the visual appearance of a continued straight path, the design enhances the surprise effect when users experience the actual gradient change, without requiring completely new structural elements.
4Reliability
If the tube slide section has a closed circumference design, then user safety is improved, but it limits the ability to create visual illusions of open space
Solution Approach 1:
The water slide uses water flow as an intermediary element that works within the closed tube structure to create the illusion of open space. The flowing water and lighting effects serve as mediators that transform the confined tube environment into an experience that feels more open and visually engaging.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The design provides a thrilling and unexpected acceleration experience, enhancing user engagement by creating an illusion of a fall or unexpected change in direction, while maintaining safety through controlled gradient changes and visual deception.
Implementation Method 1
the floor section of the action slide section has a greater, in particular medium, gradient than the floor section of the tube slide section located in front of it in the sliding direction and than the ceiling sections of the tube section and the action slide section, in order to surprisingly accelerate a user sliding in the slide direction
Data Source
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AI summary
The invention relates to a water slide with a preferably circumferentially enclosed tube slide section (2) and an action slide section (3) following the tube slide section (2) in a sliding direction, wherein both the tube slide section (2) and the action slide section (2) have a floor section (6, 7) forming a sliding surface and a ceiling section (4, 5) located above the respective floor section (6, 7), and wherein the floor section (7) of the action slide section (3) has a greater, in particular medium, gradient than the floor section (6) of the tube slide section (2) and than the ceiling sections (4, 5) of the tube slide section (2) and the action slide section (3) in order to accelerate a user sliding in the direction of travel.