Falling pattern imagery system

摘要

An apparatus for dropping multiple objects into a visual field to create imagery including hollow ducts for conveying the objects to the visual field and computer-controlled gating devices for releasing the objects at desire times and sequences to produce the imagery.

主权项

1. An apparatus for dropping multiple visual field objects into a visual field to create imagery comprising:
an upper section, a lower section, and a visual field disposed between the upper and lower sections; a container for receiving and holding visual field objects disposed in the upper section having a plurality of apertures distributed across its bottom; a façade having a plurality of apertures in alignment with the apertures distributed across the container bottom; a plurality of hollow ducts extending between the container apertures and the façade apertures for conveying the visual field objects from the container to the façade apertures; gating devices located in the ducts for releasing the visual field objects from the ducts to produce imagery in the visual field; a receptacle for receiving the visual field objects after they pass through the visual field; a recirculating unit for returning visual field objects from the receptacle to the container disposed in the upper section; and a control unit to operate the gating devices.