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WATERlab™
Bring Your Water Features to Life
WATERlab™ is the most powerful toolset for creating exceptional experiences in water and light. It is the industry’s first physics-based 3D water feature simulation, design and programming suite, and brings together: Connected Smart Devices; a Powerful Design Platform; a Control & Monitoring Suite; and is built in the Cloud, for remote access.
Our customers, partners and collaborators depend on the two parts of the platform: WATERlab™ CREATE & WATERlab™ CONTROL when they ultimately decide to build a water feature to reduce risk, lower costs and improve creative control.
WATERlab™ CREATE
WATERlab™ CREATE is born of our 50 years of experience and the need for a toolset that lets you focus on design and creative excellence: to design better, to design longer, and to build and deploy that design faithfully and easily. This software takes into account the gravitational forces of water and combines a physics-based engine to simulate the true behaviour of water, together with parametric components (that we manufacture!) that know how they are supposed to behave. The result is a true simulation and prototype of your water feature – before you ever break ground.
PLAY
WATERlab™ is a simulation, not an animation
What makes WATERlab™ CREATE Unique?
Real Water
WATERlab™ CREATE uses a physics-based particle engine to model the behaviour of water in a scientifically validated simulation - not just an animation.
Splash & Wind Modelling
Analyze the wind direction and splash zone of a water feature using the actual nozzles we fabricate, and see how it will impact the surrounding space. Do you have planting too close? Will the feature impact a walkway? Have the answers before construction begins.
Collision
Model how water will react with surfaces, or even when it starts colliding with itself. This gives you the freedom to design the effects you want within the space you have.
IES Lighting
WATERlab uses IES lighting profiles, the industry standard for lighting designers, to simulate the true colour quality and intensity of Crystal’s manufactured fixtures. It even models IES profiles under water, which is unique in the industry.
Time of Day and GPS location
Animate the time of day in your simulation and locate your feature in its real-world place to get as close as possible to the true conditions of the site and experience.
Modularity & Scalability
WATERlab™ adapts to the scale of your feature, using the same powerful toolset, whether it is an iconic and monumental showcase, or an intimate residential garden.
Brentwood Town Center design using WATERlab™ CREATE
WATERlab™ CONTROL
Brentwood Town Center final commissioning using WATERlab™ CONTROL
How does WATERlab™ CONTROL reduce risk, lower costs and improve Creative control?
Direct Deployment at Commissioning
Extend the Design Phase of the work longer, and then deploy faster and automatically without diluting that creative excellence. WATERlab CONTROL translates your best creative choreography directly from CREATE automatically into the signal code needed for your panels in the control room.
Cloud-Connectivity
Connect from the office during commissioning, and troubleshoot remotely with live monitoring and intelligence instead of needing to go on-site. Or just plug in your laptop in the control room!
Reduce Complexity
Simplify and speed up manual processes at commissioning, reduce the number of hardware systems and fragile integrations between them, and streamline maintenance and operations.
Multimedia and Show Behaviours
Connect your water feature to other media and special effects systems and apply complex rules to your shows in a simple interface.
Disaster Prevention
Backup your system in the Cloud and restore it on demand with a plug-and-play CPU core.
Reprogram Remotely
WATERlab CONTROL lets you update your programming anytime remotely, and keep design in the hands of your Creative teams. STAY FOCUSED ON THE MAIN THING - delighting your guests with an amazing water and light experience.
WATERlab™ PROJECTS
Terrell Hills, Texas, USA
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Lévis, Quebec, Canada
Temple, Texas, USA
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