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What can a digital waterfall display?

A digital waterfall can print any graphics, logos or texts prepared in black and white graphic files (.png). Shades of grey cannot be displayed.

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The longer the water wall, the greater the resolution of image that can be printed.
A digital waterfall reads a graphic file and prints 100 horizontal lines per second.
Our software allows combining shorter files into one longer file. Wordfall digital waterfall can store up to 9 programs. It is started remotely using a tablet. At the end of a program, it starts from the beginning.

Straight digital waterfall

There are 80 vertical water streams (vertical lines) for each meter of waterfall length.

Example:

To prepare a 10-minute show for 3m long digital waterfall, you need to prepare a black and white file sized: 240 x 60,000 pixels (3m x 80 vertical lines and 600 seconds x 100 horizontal lines).

Round or curved digital waterfall

A digital waterfall that is used for round or curved installations consists of modules that are 65cm long. Each module has 32 vertical water streams (vertical lines).

Example:

To prepare a 10-minute show for a round digital waterfall which consists of 16 printing modules and has a diameter of 3m you need to prepare a black and white file sized: 512 x 60,000 pixels (16 modules x 32 vertical lines and 600 seconds x 100 horizontal lines).


Text width

In order to get maximum readability, standard letters should not be narrower than 45 px. This means that a digital waterfall that has 3m can display words that have up to 5 wide letters. A digital waterfall can print longer words vertically letter by letter.

Text height

A word should be stretched to cover the whole width of a digital waterfall. The letters printed by a digital waterfall should be 60 px high and the vertical space between two words or letters should be around 40 px.

Bottom - up

Please remember that all images are printed starting from the bottom. Words and letters at the bottom of the image are printed first.

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