I saw this video a while back from SmarterEveryDay and I thought it was one of the coolest things ever. In the video, Destin, builds this complex rig to create a situation where 2 vortex rings collide. He wanted to get high quality slow motion video for the shot and spent a ton of time researching how to accomplish this and made many design modifications. Sometimes when the two rings collide a series of secondary vortex rings are created. This is some of craziest stuff to watch and I have no idea why or how it happens. This is such a beautiful phenomena and it is so cool to see it in such a controlled environment.
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Flow Vis Guidebook
- Introduction to the Guidebook
- Overview 1: Phenomena. Why Does It Look Like That?
- Overview 2: Visualization Techniques
- Overview 3: Lighting
- Overview 4 - Photography A: Composition and Studio Workflow
- Overview 4 - Photography B: Cameras
- Overview 4 - Photography C: Lenses - Focal Length
- Overview 4 - Photography C: Lenses - Aperture and DOF
- Overview 4: Photography D: Exposure
- Overview 4 - Photography E - Resolution
- Overview 5 - Post-Processing
- Clouds 1: Names
- Clouds 2: Why Are There Clouds? Lift Mechanism 1: Instability
- Clouds 3: Skew - T and Instability
- Clouds 4: Clouds in Unstable Atmosphere
- Clouds 5: Lift Mechanism 2 - Orographics
- Clouds 6: Lift Mechanism 3 - Weather Systems
- Boundary Techniques - Introduction
- Dye Techniques 1 - Do Not Disturb
- Dye Techniques 2 - High Visibility
- Dye Techniques 3 - Light Emitting Fluids
- Refractive Index Techniques 1: Liquid Surfaces
- Refractive Index Techniques 2: Shadowgraphy and Schlieren
- Particle Physics: Flow and Light
- Particles 2: Aerosols
- Art and Science
- TOC and Zotpress test
- Photons, Wavelength and Color
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Second Place – The secondary vortices are very interesting.
Second Prize: The slow motion vortex is beautiful to watch, it’s interesting to see the many vortex rings that occur after, and impressive because of the precise work and amount of trial and error needed.
Second Prize: The colliding of vortex rings was so mesmerizing!!! Also similar to Evan Hanson, Love this Channel.
Third Place – I love this YouTube channel so much! I think that Dustin has the best job in the world. The vortices from the colliding colors are an amazing representation of fluid flow.
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