Thin film interferenece is a natural phenomenon in which light waves reflected by the upper and lower boundaries of a thin film (soap bubble) interfere with one another, creating beautiful gradients of flowing color.
Get Wet – AJ Terio – Thin Film Interference – Beautiful Soap Bubbles
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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
- Particles 1- Physics: Flow and Light
- Particles 2: Aerosols
- Particles 3: In Water
- Particles 4 -Dilute Particle Techniques
- Art and Science
- TOC and Zotpress test
- Photons, Wavelength and Color
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Such a cool and visually stimulating image. I like how bubbles are a seemingly every day thing, but by taking a closer look at the surface, there is a lot of beauty and fluid mechanics that you wouldn’t notice.
Hello AJ,
I love the wide color pallet you were able to achieve for this project! I think you did a great job capturing all parts of the flow in this image. The way the piece turned out is great! You can really appreciate the dynamic movement and dripping of the system. Great job!
The colors here are just astounding. I assume it’s edited, but the spread of vibrant, saturated colors and pastels is so impressive.
The range of colors captured in this image is wild. The patterns are super cool and the way you setup the experiment is very interesting, nice job!
Hello AJ,
I think the way you cropped this image really enhances the flow. I also like that the top of the image is more in focus than the bottom and that the colors almost fade from top to bottom. I think the bright colors are very eye-catching.
Seeing the setup for your image was really cool, it seemed like a difficult image to take! I do think if you’d cropped it to just the first third of the image it would be a bit more striking because the bottom half is less clear.