project two ideas

this project i was thinking about making a dress which reacts to heat and movement.
i want to encorporate the body through the idea of a skeletal frame and how the structure is used as a form.

using basic techniques, the aurduino will react to an external imput to control the light patterns.

idea one...
water fountain.
the idea actually came to me before i uploaded the water dress pictured below.
i would really like to make a dress where the heat fluxuates in parts of the dress from water heated to cooling down. the idea that 'somehow' i could congure up a fuguration where water pumps used from gardens could be applied to the design of the dress. as you would say an hourglass figure.
there would be tubes stemming from the top of the structure around the bust intertwined between a wire frame to the bottom and looping back up to the top which filtered water through a semi-heating system at the bottom of the dress.
a basic element pulled from a kettle or old stove top.
as the water travels down it is cooling down and when it reaches the top again it is hot.
the temperature sensor would be set on top of some of these tubes which between them run a strip of leds which would turn on and off in a 'mexican wave' type fade as the water cooled back down to the bottom.
i could imagine that in the dark this dress would look quite spectacular also the water reflecting back in the tube from the leds.