A couple of you asked about the animated fountain video that was shown very briefly in class. It was originally posted by Allwyn in the comments of the post about animated GIFs, but since it received such a reaction I thought I would repost it in all its glory here.

It took some time, but I was able to learn that it is called the Space Printer fountain as the water is actually falling about a foot-and-a-half in front of the wall behind it as you can somewhat see in the header image. It is illuminated from the top, and is essentially functioning like a printer; in other words, images are stored on a PC and the fountain emits drops of water to recreate those images in a manner similar to how an ink-jet printer puts drops of ink onto paper. The fountain was built by Koei, who has developed other artistically-minded fountains as well.