User talk:Vincecate/WaterWalker

Nice Vinceate, so simple, so elegant.

I was just wandering of the size of the legs, when I thought that they do not have to be that big. If you cut the tetraherdon with a horizontal plane, you get a triangle supported by three balls. You do not change anything to the stability, except to lower the gravity center, which is always a good thing.

Well, you can go as far as lowering the height to the height of the balls, like putting a plate on three balls. Althouh ineastetics, this shows how much space you can get. Of course, you need balls bigger than the bigest wave, which is not easy to show on scaled model.

Then I thought a bit further, why not replace the legs by curved bows joining the balls two by two. You keep a nice structure where you can hang anything needed and with the exact same stability. And, while we are here, you can give the upper infrastructre the form you want.

You propose to increase the number od balls to 6. Why not to something like the one in cbthiess' note. If I understood the design, interferances wave cancel each other and erases almost totally in the center. The material does not matters, just the form.