Information-presentation structure with pressure spreading and pressure-sensitive color change

An information-presentation (“IP”) structure comprising:

• an object-impact (“OI”) structure having an exposed surface for being impacted by an object during an activity, the OI structure comprising a variable-color (“VC”) region which extends to the exposed surface at a surface zone and normally appears along it largely as a principal color during the activity, the VC region comprising (a) pressure-sensitive color-change (“PSCC”) structure and (b) pressure-spreading structure situated at least partly between the surface zone and the PSCC structure and having a pressure-spreading surface spaced apart from the surface zone, the object impacting the surface zone at an impact-dependent (“ID”) object-contact (“OC”) area spanning where the object contacts the surface zone, the pressure-spreading structure laterally spreading pressure of the impact along an ID distributed-pressure area of the pressure-spreading surface, the distributed-pressure area laterally outwardly conforming largely to, being laterally larger than, and being laterally largely concentric with the OC area, an ID segment of the PSCC structure responding to excess internal pressure along the distributed-pressure area by providing a general characteristics-identifying impact signal if excess internal pressure along the distributed-pressure area meets excess internal pressure criteria, excess internal pressure being pressure in excess of normal internal pressure, the impact signal identifying an expected location of an ID print area in the surface zone and general supplemental impact information for the impact;
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• a color-change (“CC”) controller responsive to the impact signal, if provided, for determining whether the supplemental impact information meets supplemental impact criteria and, if so, for providing a general CC initiation signal, the ID segment of the PSCC structure responding to the initiation signal, if provided, by causing an ID portion of the VC region to temporarily appear along the print area largely as changed color materially different from the principal color, the print area at least partly encompassing, at least mostly outwardly conforming largely to, and being largely concentric with the OC area.