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To everyone who has responded to Eric Siegel's post, and to everyone who
mayrespond later, Thank You for the feedback.
I am a member of the Exhibits team working on this project, and your ideas
are well taken. Despite the rapidly shrinking timeline to complete the
project (3 weeks), we have by no means "finalized" designs on some of the
pieces. You've given us further fodder for the process.

Kind regards,

Daniel Bartolini



On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Jeff Courtman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Eric:  Great use of youtube.  Seeing the overhead projector reminded me of
> a simple project David Sanders created for The Science Place (through the
> Exploratorium's/NSF staff training project).
>
> Dave build a small plex container, about 2 inches high, and about the size
> of the projecting area, creating a very simple, easy-to-manipulate ripple
> tank.  I think we used a small squeeze bulb (about the size we used to use
> to clean our children's noses). You can create puffs of air, or you can drip
> drops of water into the 'tank' and the wave patterns are quite visible.  You
> can obviously add simple cut out acrylic shapes to look at reflections, etc.
> Very nice and very simple use of shadows to help make the invisible
> visible.
>
> I give a second big thumbs down to ambient music.  Another reason, besides
> staff insanity, is needing a volume control that responds to ambient sound
> level in the room.  Doable, but do you really want to?
>
> Loved the play idea of making structures and feeding into the wind silos.
>  I would probably want to put some of these shapes on a stick (like the
> cutouts) so they could be studied a bit more as they turned.....
>
> Thanks for the chance to kibbitz and kudos for your staff for offering this
> up for critique!
>
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