This image shows flow patterns created with food coloring throughout oobleck (non-newtonion fluid) that has been vibrated by a shake table. The food coloring drops were placed in the suspension and then the shake table was activated at a frequency of 10Hz slowly increasing to 15Hz.
John Whiteman IV3
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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
- Dilute Particle Techniques - Under Construction
- Particles 2: Aerosols
- Particles 3: In Water - Under Construction
- Art and Science
- TOC and Zotpress test
- Photons, Wavelength and Color
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This color contrast in this image is awesome and the frozen combination of the colors is very surreal, but I think by doing a perspective crop, making the now trapezoidal tray into a square, you could really improve the image and it’s effect
The opaqueness makes it look like a painting, and it also allows me to see what is happening with the vortices.
I like the way the paints mixed with each other, how it forms a boundary between the green and pink.
I like the vortexes that your image produced.
You did a good job! It looks like a painting.
I love how alien and otherworldly it looks. The dark spot in the middle also has some nice dark red and blues that I love.
“Big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity, and little whirls have lesser whirls and so on to viscosity.”—Lewis Fry Richardson.
Really cool capture of the vortices that appear in the corners of the container while on the shake table! The way that they appear reminds me of an alien version of Jupiter.
I love the mixing of the colors in the center as well as the thick lines of food coloring on the very edges of the vortices
Given the context of Will’s video, it is cool to see all of the fluid vortices interacting. The color choices are very nice and create a cool looking “black hole” shape in the center