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OUTLOOK Forecast Fountain
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The OUTLOOK fountain is a sort of benevolent monument that communicates the day\'s weather forecast to the community through color, form and emotion.

It\'s a simple visual way for anyone to prepare for their day. Instead of giving you exact numbers, the fountain uses our emotional understanding of color and form to express the forecast. Colors like yellow and orange suggest warmth and brightness. Colors like green and blue suggest cold. Mixed colors suggest varying conditions.

The shape, strength and size of the various spouts also use emotion to express the coming weather. High, rising spouts suggest high temperatures. Busy, dispersed and frothy fountains suggest rain.

Because this fountain reads on an emotional level, it does not exclude anyone. People do not have to speak any specific language or be educated to understand it\'s message. In this way it unites the community by creating a channel of basic emotional communication between everyone who sees the fountain.

An OUTLOOK fountain would be placed in an open space, where everyone has access to it - not only to get the forecast, but to enjoy it as a landmark, a landscaping element, and a beautiful night-time attraction as well.
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nice! water and light speaking realtime information... what does a storm look like in there? quasi
cool. howman
Neat idea, unfortunately where I live, most of the time the water in the fountain would be frozen! lol. LED Head
@LED Head - oh you too eh?... We are getting into summer so it is daylight out till 10:30pm here and lights up again way earlier than I get up... howman
good idea with any barometer durica
Good natural relation, the sound is additional show. HelferDesign
I\'m sure some form of antifreeze could be used that would not be harmful to animals that happen to splash around a bit. It would be so nifty to have water flowing at -50 Celsius around here some days in the winter. howman
great concept...i just can not imagine, how to learn the signs, i think simple signs would be nice, sunny, rainy, snowy ? don now.. just an idea.. :) sarem