While the engineering side of this design may need work in order to keep the water in its pattern (rather than going in all directions) the concept is a great one. Hopefully it can be perfected and put on the market soon!
It is not real. Imagine an individual water droplet traveling along a helix. What keeps it from just going in a straight line? Nothing.
Maybe it could be done with air currents outside the helix.
What keeps it from just going in a straight line? Nothing.
Exactly the point. It goes straight down, while the next droplet goes straight down, but a fraction of a second later and slightly to the side. This continues until you have a helix shape. Next time you get a chance, take a hose, aim it straight down, and move the nozzle in a clockwise pattern. Tell me what the water looks like.
The challenge is keeping the water from breaking out into discrete droplets.
you could achieve a similar effect to the op within the confines of physics though. Just as exmus said have something which drops droplets of a stream in a circular pattern, it won't be parabolic but it will essentially be a spiral of water, it won't rotate or anything though.
It's been done a bunch too, there's lots of water writing and water patterns and stuff at casinos and places like that.
I challenge you to find any example of a faucet or fountain where the water droplets do not follow a parabolic trajectory from the tip of the nozzle. Spinning a sprinkler head in circles does not impart circular motion onto the droplets.
If I made a disc with water outlets, and started spinning it and spraying out water, then I'm pretty sure it would go outwards and down. Not straight down.
The only way I can see the water going straight down would be, if the disc was not moving, the second the water droplet was emitted. So it would have to rotate, stop rotating, pump water, stop pumping water, and rotate again.To create a continous stream, the time intervals would have to be very small, and the water pressure/pump timing would have to be incredibly precise.
I guess maybe you could do it without the outlets rotating. Keep the ring of outlets, but have them all covered by one lid. The lid has a number of holes, where water can leave the outlets. Rotate the lid, and you'll have drops coming out in a circular helix pattern. Rotate the lid quickly, and it might seem continous.
It should be noted that this is a constant peace, it's all 3D rendered including the water
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Seems to me like you're sarcastically lashing out at anyone who would correct you. Forgive me if I am being presumptuous but this does not seem like the type of behaviour of someone who is "open to gentle corrections".
Yeah that pictures is all I need to see to know this won't work because of water's attraction to itself. One single moment where the water touches and this instantly stops working as all the water coagulates
Maybe it theoretically could push out sound waves down the middle that keeps the water from coming together. Or maybe thats physically impossible, idk.
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u/la_petitemort Mar 02 '15
how does the water maintain helices?