Compact toy aquarium

About this model

A chunky toy fish tank, not a copy of any real one. The tank is a square light aqua box. On its front and its back hangs a big navy light box, almost as wide as the tank: its face is the water, cut wide open, with three angelfish, four strands of seaweed and a row of pebbles left standing in it as dark shapes. Each fish has one small lit eye. A 2 m LED strip hides behind the seaweed inside each box and lights the aqua wall behind the face, so at night the water glows and the fish and seaweed stand dark in it. On top sits the navy hood with nine slim vents on every side, lit from inside. Up to four laptop blades stand in a row in the tank. Its walls are solid and the light boxes are glued on the outside of them, so from outside you never see a computer board, from any angle. Air comes in through the slatted vents in the plinth and leaves through the hood. You pick 2, 3 or 4 computers and the model stays the same size: 0.55 x 0.50 m, 80 cm tall. This is the first model where a lit feature covers most of a side, and the first to use a light box. How evenly the water glows is only modelled, not yet seen on a real print. The light boxes stand 30 mm proud on the front and the back, so the model is 545 mm deep and a knock can break one off.

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